The title of this post is a quotation from US Senator Lindsey Graham, during a recent radio interview — find more details here, in a recent Washington Post report, along with a transcript of that portion of his interview. It concerns the President characterizing someone who is now much in the news as being a “spy” planted in his campaign by the FBI. That others understand this person as an informant — someone who, of their own volition, apparently decided […]
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Purity and Danger
If you know of the Panera chain of soup & sandwich shops then you might know about their latest marketing campaign — they sell clean food. I guess that means that other menus — those of their competitors in the fast food industry, that is — are populated by, well, dirty food. Apart from the curiously anti-intellectual theme to the campaign (if you can’t easily say the name then it must be bad for you), the initiative makes evident that […]