Thursday, September 25, 2008

The War on Coherence

Sarah Palin: Maverick Reformer of Language & Logic

COURIC: Well, explain to me why that enhances your foreign policy credentials?

PALIN: Well, it certainly does because our next door neighbors are foreign countries. they're in the state that i am the executive of. And there in Russia --

COURIC: Have you ever been involved with any negotiations for example, with the Russians?

PALIN: We have trade missions back and forth. We do -- it's very important when you consider even national security issues with Russia -- as Putin rears his head and comes into the airspace of the United States of America, where do they go?

It's Alaska, It's right over the border. It is from Alaska, that we send those out to make sure an eye is being kept on this very powerful nation, Russia, because they are right there, they are right next to our state.



"It's like H.L. Mencken wrote a Christopher Guest movie starring Tina Fey"

Please make it stop!

DO ANYTHING YOU CAN - BUT DO IT!!!

UPDATE - Hertzberg:
This seems to be a case of incoherence of thought leading to incoherence of syntax. Pronouns wander in search of antecedents like Arctic explorers in a blinding snowstorm.
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The whole thing reads like something rendered from the Finnish by Google Translate.

Friday, September 05, 2008

McCain's "Friends"

This is just sad: McBush is so desperate to make friends, he has to resort to this:
apparently, the Republicans couldn't find very many African American supporters to show on the Big Screen Of Triumph, when introducing McCain... so they simply put up stock photos of black people.

Maybe he can take a tip from Colbert:

Tuesday, September 02, 2008

It's Later Than You Think

With Labor Day behind us and pumpkin-flavored drinks already returning to your favorite coffee shop, it's not too early to start thinking about holiday gifts for those special someones. The friendly experiencers in your life would surely appreciate a copy of Anthony Braxton's 9 Compositions (Iridium) 2006 (Firehouse 12 Records).

I was never really happy with the audio/video quality of the YouTube trailer, so I've now made a higher-quality version available here:



And if you need to catch up on the hoopla: