Stupid Super Bowl Tautology Winner
"Is there anything more American than America?"
That it was delivered by Bob Dylan probably made it worse.
That it was delivered by Bob Dylan probably made it worse.
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.
"Is there anything more shitty than shit?"
ReplyDeleteWhen put this way ...well, adjectives are fun.
Odd that even blog commenters who call America shit choose to live there. Copraphagous perhaps.
ReplyDeleteAre you serious? You seem to be taking some charity with your conclusions. Did I call America "shit" or America "shitty"? Nope.
DeleteWhat I did do was point out the grammatical and linguistic functions at work, and I used a different word to illustrate this relationship. IOW, I was pointing out how the relationship between an adjective and an object noun aren't always clear, that there is a lot of subjectivity between them, depending upon how the words are used.
In your mind, because I replaced the word "America" with "shit", that must necessarily mean that I think "America=shit" or "American=shitty". In reality, all I did was choose a word in order to better illustrate the grammar at hand.
And just to be clear--since we're talking about grammar and definitions--I have absolutely no problems with nations, continents, cultures, governments, peoples, or anything else of that like. My primary objection is against the state (i.e. a monopoly over the aforementioned things). If you can somehow equate "America" with the "state" without the use of adjectives or propositions, then I might give you my ear on this subject. Until then ...
Did I mention your name Joseph Fetz? I believe you just drew a natural conclusion from the juxtaposition of short, epigrammatic comments. As did I.
ReplyDeleteYou just showed me that you're entirely full of it. Congrats and goodbye.
DeleteWell I guess the answer to Dylan's question is....blowin' in the wind?
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