‘Exfeariential’: Another take on fright-peddling

‘Exfeariential’: Another take on fright-peddling December 16, 2013

It’s special to see yourself like this.”

“A preference for forthrightness, an impatience with ‘niceness’ — this is my paradoxical inheritance from evangelicalism, tempered as it is by my distrust of the compulsory niceness of evangelical culture itself.”

“An institution in trouble has a good shot at weathering the storm if on the next slow news day it can announce it just discovered a new dinosaur.”

“Around 2007, farmers began noticing pig poop acting funny.”

“There’s a very basic aspect of atheism that Gohmert is just not getting.”

“There’s probably no better form of government than a good despot.”

“This is a zombie state ruled by a zombie, the only necrocracy in the world.”

Like an Ocean’s 11 of female scientists, everyone striding around in tight but practical breeches, with archaeology belts and a little swipe of dirt on their cheekbones and introducing themselves with hearty, friendly, frank handshakes.”

“Sure, it’s useful to know when to use who and whom, but it’s probably more useful to know that saying To whom did you give the book? in casual conversation will make you sound like a pompous twit.”

“Neither the newspaper nor the puzzle creator, ‘Harry the Dog — News Hound,’ were immediately available for comment.”

“If they ran a piece about satellites, would they get an ‘opposing view’ from a Flat Earther?

“If we behave like facts don’t matter, then one day they won’t.”

New Oldsmobiles are in early this year.”

 


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