Auto-Partisanship
“Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.”
—Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007), “Cold Turkey,” In These Times, May 10, 2004
Editor’s Note: And thanks to Scott Brown, now I have to switch my politics or dump my pickup truck. Jeesh.
GOP PICKUP—Scott Brown’s pick-up truck was surrounded by the media in Wrentham, Mass. “I love this old truck. It’s brought me closer to the people of this state,’’ Brown said in an advertisement. (David L. Ryan/Boston Globe Staff)Today’s effin’ freezin’ foto.
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Javan writes:
ReplyDelete[As a manic copy editor, one of the things that drives me up the wall is separating an adjective from a modifier. Vonnegut is great; but I'm still trying to figure out where in that sentence the word 'only' belongs . . . 'you can be only one of two kinds of human beings'? 'you can be one of only two kinds of human beings' ?. . . or as it is? Should 'only' modify 'be' or should it modify 'one' or should it modify 'two kinds of human beings'? Javan]
I often think it's comical – Fal, lal, la!
How Nature always does contrive – Fal, lal, la!
That every boy and every gal
That’s born into the world alive
Is either a little Liberal
Or else a little Conservative!
Fal, lal, la!
--W.S. Gilbert/"Iolanthe"