Comments on: The Uses of Metaphor http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/2004/05/21/the-uses-of-metaphor/ faults | sins | abuses Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:20:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: John http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/2004/05/21/the-uses-of-metaphor/#comment-632 John Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/archives/2004/05/21/the-uses-of-metaphor/#comment-632 Today I sent this One Liner to the letters editor of the San Jose Mercury News: "Since George W. Bush has fallen off a couch, a Segway scooter, and his mountain bike, we now have incontrovertible evidence that this president is unbalanced." Today I sent this One Liner to the letters editor of the San Jose Mercury News: “Since George W. Bush has fallen off a couch, a Segway scooter, and his mountain bike, we now have incontrovertible evidence that this president is unbalanced.”

]]> By: Mike http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/2004/05/21/the-uses-of-metaphor/#comment-633 Mike Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/archives/2004/05/21/the-uses-of-metaphor/#comment-633 Good one. I'm thinking progression from the falling-down president of Chevy Chase's SNL skits to our current falling-down president calls for an inversion of Marx's dictum about history: Chevy Chase was farcical; this president is tragic. Or maybe just pathetic. How is it that the White House can so tightly control every bit of information released to the press, but has no problems with a president who can't stand up? Good one. I’m thinking progression from the falling-down president of Chevy Chase’s SNL skits to our current falling-down president calls for an inversion of Marx’s dictum about history: Chevy Chase was farcical; this president is tragic. Or maybe just pathetic.

How is it that the White House can so tightly control every bit of information released to the press, but has no problems with a president who can’t stand up?

]]> By: Wealth Bondage http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/2004/05/21/the-uses-of-metaphor/#comment-634 Wealth Bondage Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/archives/2004/05/21/the-uses-of-metaphor/#comment-634 <strong>The Rule of Law and other Throwbacks to Democracy</strong> Posted by The Happy Tutor Vitia: "Carlin Barton cites Caligula's remark to his grandmother Antonia: 'Bear in mind that I can treat anyone exactly as I please' (Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars, 166), and concludes that 'The will of the king was law, and the The Rule of Law and other Throwbacks to Democracy
Posted by The Happy Tutor Vitia: “Carlin Barton cites Caligula’s remark to his grandmother Antonia: ‘Bear in mind that I can treat anyone exactly as I please’ (Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars, 166), and concludes that ‘The will of the king was law, and the

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