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[kelly_jones]

Listening to NPR and obsessively copyediting my CV

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[auntbeast]

there was plenty of palpatine; senator lieberman supported the war, did he not??

[auntbeast]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=3712993&mesg_id=3713030

[kelly_jones]

I was thinking, that's a good point, lots of people (uhhhh Cheney Rummy Wolfowitz etc.) were all about Palpatine-esque empire creation, though I suppose the point still stands that said fantasies were totally divorced from reality,
maybe the real point is that Ferguson has always wanted to make a Star Wars reference in The New Republic...

And then I clicked on the link. Good God! Terrifying! Really too much for me so early in the day. The Shrub / Chimp photo comparisons always amused me, but this is just scary. Muchas Gracias!

[mt_morphine]

Okay smarty-pants politicos, I am going to be the voice of grammar. "Incentivize" is not a word. Nor should it be.

[mt_morphine]

I know. I thought the same thing as I typed in the quote, even though I suspect (and www.dictionary.com confirms) that this terrible neologism has indeed become accepted as a word. Ugh. Next thing you know respectable academics will be describing things as "relatable."

[kelly_jones]

And that was Kelly, though I apparently didn't manage to log in.