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by rcareaga
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4/18/03 2:13:49 PM
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New Re: Hilarious article.
I can't believe a newspaper would print this drivel.

If it makes you feel any better, the SF Chronicle doesn't--this column appears only on the website, and I can't recall ever seeing "Mark Morford's" byline in the print edition. And yes, it's ineffective as polemic because irony almost never works when it's laid on with a trowel (a principle marlowe, for one, has yet to grasp, although at least he doesn't generally spit when he raves).

cordially,
"Die Welt ist alles, was der Fall ist."
Post #97,338
by dmarker
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4/18/03 6:23:56 PM
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New Good call.


Spectres from our past: Beware the future when your children & theirs come after you for what you may have been willing to condone today - dsm 2003


Motivational: When performing activities, ask yourself if the person you most want to be would do, or say, it - dsm 2003
Post #97,362
by Ashton
4/19/03 1:31:46 AM
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New There may be another scale though, given the state of
radio talkshows (but then I've sampled so few of late, I'm guessing here).

That is, the above is an example of the Rushmouth disease of dripping invective and deconstruction, extirpating phrases from sentences which in context: might have made a certain sense. Since speaking 'Truth' is never the pure emotional aim of such doggerel, why.. that idea never comes up. Maybe he thought an escalation of inanity would spotlight inanity [?]

What I think this genre suffers from though (even before this new scale of hyperbole) is the impossibility of ridiculing daily events which themselves stand-alone as fucking ridiculous!

(I'm not sure what might work, then. Rescue Language first?)


Ashton
     Hilarious article. - (cybermace5) - (4) - April 18, 2003, 01:19:03 PM EDT
         Hitting a little too close to home? -NT - (jbrabeck) - April 18, 2003, 01:51:36 PM EDT
         Re: Hilarious article. - (rcareaga) - (2) - April 18, 2003, 02:13:49 PM EDT
             Good call. -NT - (dmarker) - April 18, 2003, 06:23:56 PM EDT
             There may be another scale though, given the state of - (Ashton) - April 19, 2003, 01:31:46 AM EDT

You should be skinned and fed to tassies for intercoursing with those devils.
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