tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22183958.post3322735197523449527..comments2023-12-24T15:36:16.969-05:00Comments on Chuck for ...: Scapegoat ...Aaaaaaggghhhh!Chuck Butcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13656874242638324636noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22183958.post-2483326847957274232007-01-16T22:29:00.000-05:002007-01-16T22:29:00.000-05:00I'm up to the linguistic challenge, provided it do...I'm up to the linguistic challenge, provided it doesn't have to work in polite company...<br />So, I guess I'll just keep quiet.Chuck Butcherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13656874242638324636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22183958.post-59644396419290947632007-01-16T16:05:00.000-05:002007-01-16T16:05:00.000-05:00I tried to think up a word that means "victim of R...I tried to think up a word that means <i>"victim of RATIONAL hostility</i>," which I hope comes to describe W., but I wasn't up to the linguistic challenge. Times of great turmoil are reflected in the language; hence we get names that turn into insults--like "Mudd" from the Civil War or "Quisling" and "Eichmann" from WWII. Going back to that time I am reminded of Mussolini's fate as the victim of "rational" hostility on the part of those who willingly put him into power and followed him into folly. But I hope our nation doesn't go down that road, despite W.'s efforts to lead us there.<br /><br />I think W.'s, Cheney's, Rice's and other's eventual political demises may require new language, and I hope all of there names come to be a shorthand term for "one who becomes an object of extreme disgust, loathing, and contempt as a result of failed leadership based on fear-mongering and divisiveness backed up with cringing cowardice, incompetence, and paranoid delusions."<br /><br />"Napolean" doesn't even do it, though "Nero" is getting close. The only close historical precedent I can think of are "Captain Bly" of the Bounty. In fiction of course we have "Chicken Little" and Humphrey Bogart's brilliant "Commander Queeg" in <i>Mutiny on the Bounty</i>. So here's hoping that "Yup, he's a real Bush/Cheney/Rice" comes to mean all the things we've come to know about this band of frightened idiots.Zakariah Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12751075547005542773noreply@blogger.com