Challenge: Define PostStructuralism As Coherent Without Babbling

Rowan 5/22/2012
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Challenge to deep thinkers around the world: Provide a definition of the term poststructuralist that meets the three following simple criteria: 1. Explains what poststructuralism is, rather than what it is not 2. Does not refer to structuralism 3. Is …

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Occupy Grammar

Rowan 5/15/2012
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What’s the different message of a bumper sticker in the shape of the United States and the label “occupied territory” and a bumper sticker that’s exactly the same but with a label that reads “occupy”?

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The Definition of Environmentalism

The Green Man 12/7/2011
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In response to the posturing of the public relations firms and their fat advertising budgets, I offer the following alternative definition of what it means to be an environmentalist.

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Retirement: Definition, New American English

F. G. Fitzer 10/23/2011
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Retirement: Noun, New American English. 1) The final stage of life when, upon reaching the age of 65, people work just one job instead of two; 2) What Republicans and Democratic politicians alike are conspiring to do to Medicare and …

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Elevated Means Something Again: Terrorist Threat Level Dropped to Zero

Jim Cook 5/5/2011
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el·e·vat·ed adj. raised up, especially above the ground or above the normal level – Random House Dictionary el·e·vat·ed adj. the lowest terrorist threat level during the years of 2001-2010 – George W. Bush Administrative Dictionary If we’re speaking English, an …

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The Ravening

Rowan 3/9/2011
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Ravening: Hybridized noun, a feeling of desperate, predatory hunger, such as that felt by a monstrous raven, looming over a subdued animal that it intends to enjoy as its next meal. Ravening is also a t-shirt, featuring a graphic image …

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Becarefulling

jclifford 11/3/2010
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The verb of the day has just been declared by my three year-old son. Becareful: Verb. To be careful. Usage: “The toy man at the top of the tall tower is becarefulling.”

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Not Helpfull Dictionary

jclifford 7/21/2010
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I got a big scowl when I presented my son with the dictionary. When I came back to check on him a few minutes later, I saw that I had received something else as well

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Defining Your Religion

Rowan 7/7/2010
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To ponder, while sinking your toes in the hot sand: What is the definition of the word RELIGION? …no, don’t go with the definition they’ve got in the printed in the big-bound dictionary. Share the definition as you think the …

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I Call Them Cold Earthers

The Green Man 6/3/2010
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Cold Earther: A person who chooses to ignore the evidence of human-caused global warming.

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Solar Dynamics Observatory An Example Of Great Government

jclifford 4/21/2010
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Big government got this for us to see. No big business, or big church, or big music festival, or big anything else but government has gotten anywhere close to the sophistication necessary to gather these images.

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Irregular Dictionary: Good-Hearted

Jim Cook 1/19/2010
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Good-Hearted n (Homelandian; early 21st century): illegal. see especially Caproni, Valerie.

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Breaking News From the 1800s!

F. G. Fitzer 7/30/2009
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About 15,000 people are thought to live on boats in canals in London. Some real gongoozlers can be found over at the Canal Card Collectors Circle, which is affiliated with, but not completely consumed by, the Inland Waterways Association.

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What Kind of Juggernaut is General Motors?

jclifford 6/1/2009
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Is General Motors still a juggernaut? That depends on which definition of the word you use.

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Irregular Dictionary: Bitter

Jim Cook 4/28/2009
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Hat tip to My First Dictionary.

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Soft Tyranny: Anything That Drives Republicans Crazy

jclifford 3/25/2009
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If we’re going to bother as citizens to oppose acts of tyranny in the Obama Administration, let’s focus on acts of hard tyranny such as these, rather than the supposed soft tyranny of using government funds to promote the general welfare, as the Constitution suggests. Soft tyranny, after all, appears not to really be tyranny at all, but mere inconvenience for an elite few.

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Blind Deterrent

Peregrin Wood 2/16/2009
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Those people who are calling upon the government to cut spending ought to take aim at our military’s nuclear submarines, which present a threat to the entire world, even if they never fire a shot.

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Obamanglish Definition For The Word Unequivocal

F. G. Fitzer 7/12/2008
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Unequivocal – 1) adjective, English: Admitting no doubt or misunderstanding; clear and unambiguous (American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition) ; 2) adjective, Obamanglish: Completely the opposite of one’s true intentions (Pragmatic Dictionary of Political Science, First Edition)

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