“The viciousness, toxic partisan anger, intellectual
dishonesty, motive-questioning and sexism are at all-time highs, with no end in
sight. It is a place where people who are understandably upset about any number
of things go to feed their anger, where the underbelly of free speech is at its
most bilious.”
—Maggie Haberman, White House correspondent, New York Times,
“Why I Needed to Pull Back From Twitter,” The New York Times Sunday Review,
July 20, 2018.
• Editorial Comment: So much bile, so few characters. You know, Maggie and the Bilious Underbelly would be a good name for a band.
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Ted Pease, Professor of Interesting Stuff, Trinidad, California. (Be)Friend The WORD
“I
don’t think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If
you get the right ones, in the right order, you can nudge the world a
little.” —Tom Stoppard
Alert WORDster Dan Koger observes: “Good idea re the band. But alas 'tis too late. Sir Bilious Underbelly was an uproarious comedic scoundrel in Shakespeare's seldom-performed slapstick tragedy The Trumpest, in which a bumbling scoundrel unfit to shovel muck in the Royal Stables, through blind luck and massive help from a neighboring kingdom, becomes pretender to the throne. Enraged serfs armed with pitchforks and mucking shovels eventually haul the pretender from the throne and cast him into exile on a remote island inhabited solely by porn stars and Russian oligarchs, where he eventually expires after years of obscene gluttony.” Good to have fact-checkers.
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