06 February 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Downfall

“You’re six miles up, alone and falling without a parachute. Though the odds are long, a small number of people have found themselves in similar situations—and lived to tell the tale.” Here’s some advice from Popular Mechanics, at 120 miles per hour. In British Columbia, Victoria’s Poet Laureate makes the mistake of venting her indignation [...]

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29 May 2008 ~ 1 Comment

Nicely Turned

Political scientist David Runciman pens an essay on American political commentary for the London Review of Books. Here are some reactions from the very commentators in question at The Atlantic, TNR, Politico, and Pollster.com. In this post, I’d like to highlight some of Runciman’s rhetorical choices, and also respond to his pessimistic view of the [...]

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