A plan I can agree with most heartily.

Posted By on August 1, 2011 at 8:50 am

Blogger and journalist extraordinaire Robert Stacy McCain (whose last name cannot be held against him — he had it long before a certain mavericky senator thought of entering politics) has absolutely the best idea for driving blog traffic I’ve ever heard: video of hot chicks.

Indeed, though I have no such videos myself, one of the most visited pages I have here is a picture of naked chicks with guns.

Living the dream, that’s me.

Obama, the Vocabulary President

Posted By on August 1, 2011 at 6:00 am

Given the sheer volume of verbiage recently emanating from Washington DC in general and the, shall we say, unique usages coming from the White House in particular, I thought it might be helpful to have a glossary of some of the words and phrases commonly in use by the administration and on certain parts of Capitol Hill.

  • compromise – (1) verb – [when applied to Republicans] to surrender; (2) verb – [when applied to Democrats] to pretend to negotiate
  • leadverb – to provide a plan
  • plan – (1) noun – teleprompted platitudes unencumbered by specific goals or means of execution; (2) noun – specific goals and means of execution developed by Republicans and rejected by Democrats
  • taxnoun – job creating mechanism
  • revenuenoun – taxes
  • shared sacrificenoun – requirement that only half the population pay taxes
  • jetnoun – a mechanical device for leveraging higher tax rates; cf. job
  • jobnoun – an activity intended to produce tax revenue
  • millionairenoun – citizen with a non-union private sector job
  • fair sharenoun – a higher tax rate
  • spending in the tax codenoun – lower tax rates; see also racist, hate
  • hateverb – disagree
  • racist – (1) adjective – opposed to Obama or his party; (2) noun – a Republican
  • greenadjective – imaginary, e.g., green jobs
  • terroristnoun – fiscal conservative
  • patriotnoun – fiscal libertine
  • astronautnoun – hitchhiker
  • bordernoun – imaginary line across which imaginary criminals cross in one direction and real jobs cross in the other
  • healthcarenoun – Federally-funded waiting list
  • executive privilegenoun – golf outing
  • extremistnoun – a Conservative with strongly held beliefs
  • teabaggernoun – a person who, for no adequately explained reason, is somehow inferior to a teabaggee
  • letverb – watch
  • clearadjective – equivocal
  • trillionnoun – 1,000,000,000,000. [Not a new meaning. We just never heard the word every damn day before Obama.]
  • austeritynoun – [actually, this word is unknown to the current administration… but we’re all going to be familiar with it before too long.]

Please feel free to add your definitions in the comments.