Euphemisms II
It's not just abortion where these euphemisms bug me either. I think it is sometimes OK to euthanize your pet, but... you did not "put the dog to sleep."
It ain't sleeping, it's dead.
It ain't sleeping, it's dead.
Libertarians, My Libertarians!
Cruel to be kind means that I love you . Because, while I think you are mistaken, your hearts are in the right place -- yes, even you, Silas -- unlike some people . This Breitbart fellow (discussed in the link above), by all appearances, deliberately doctored a video of Shirley Sherrod to make her remarks appear virulently racist, when they had, in fact, the opposite import. I heard that at a recent Austrian conference, some folks were talking about "Callahan's conservative turn." While that description is not entirely inaccurate, I must say that a lot of these people who today call themselves conservative give me the heebie-jeebies.
This reminds me of the funniest moment in The Trouble with Harry:
ReplyDeleteduring Captain Wiles’ little afternoon snack of blueberry muffins with Miss Gravely, when he asks her how her husband died, adding that he hopes it was a peaceful death. Miss Gravely responds calmly, “He was caught in a threshing machine.”