Soccer Dad: Council speak 12/29/08

December 29, 2008

Council speak 12/29/08

This week's winning council entry was The Razor's, The Symbol of Oppression, a meditation on the origins of, meaning off and devastating effects of the peace symbol. Tie for second place were Joshuapundit's Cheney Slaps Biden Upside The Head - an admiring look at the outgoing (and unfairly vilified) Vice President's exit interview with Chris Wallace and Mere Rhetoric's Smug Liberal Sophistication Undisturbed By Decades Of Disastrously Wrong Domestic And International Predictions, a refutation of a number of accepted liberal foreign policy pieties.

On the non-council side, the winner was John Stossel's Arrogant Conceit. Stossel writes:

Obama and Emanuel want us to believe that their blueprint for reform will bring recovery from the recession. Yet we have recovered from past recessions without undertaking a radical social and economic transformation.

Apparently Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman hasn't gotten the message. The runners-up on the non-council side were Larrey Anderson's Climate Crisis = Logic Crisis - at the American Thinker - who remembers, as I do, the certainty that we were headed for a new ice age just three decades ago - GIGO - and Dhimmi Watch's Fitzgerald: If we cut off the jizya, could things become even worse? a look at even more examples of throwing money at enterprises of dubious value.

Congratulations to all the winners!

watcher's council.