Blogland is a'fire over Craddick's Interim Charges list. For our part, we're going keep capitalizing those two words to highlight their slightly awkward, sinister cadence, and of course our belief that Tom Craddick couldn't lead a silent prayer. Plus it's classier than passive aggressive quotation marks.
And since we're on the subject of using language to surreptitiously promote our political views:
Counterpunch is angry about Craddick's plan to erect a little all-republican Minilang to push his anti-immigration agenda in 2009. With their ever heavy hand poised to bitch slap something, CP says:
The Texas Speaker of the House says that lawmaking committees will spend the next year preparing a colossal vocabulary of criminalization, citizenship, and state exclusion.
They go on, although I don't understand where exactly...
In order to walk themselves more deeply into this language of them illegals versus us citizens, the legislative committees will only have to keep circling around well-marked gravesites where Southern redneck language lie buried and yet ever gracious to rise from the dead at the tiniest glint of a ring.
[sic]
Yet with so much out there to stoke populist (and grammarian) rage, I'm hung up trying to put this concept of word blending that got a comic strip booted from the pages of the Chicago Tribune, to work for us. I've only got one so far:
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