Monday, September 26, 2011

Name Calling

Now comes the season of our narrowmindedness, the political campaign season, upon us far too soon.

Let the name calling begin. This is the usual scenario, yet again, wherein people who graduated high school forty years ago, then had families and careers, start calling opposing candidates "dorks" and "idiots"...

Are they ever reminded of childhood?

Has the word "dork" made it into the dictionary?

Can one really suppose that a person who attended Yale or Harvard is actually an "idiot"?

DORK: a person with whom I, after strenuous, conciliatory thought, vigorously disagree.

IDIOT: a person with whom I, after open minded consideration, disagree.

But just what is strenuous, conciliatory thought, and just what is open minded consideration?

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