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  • On CBS’ “The 411 On Hipster Voters”

    “No matter how a candidate delivers their political message, it better be off the hook.”

    THIS VIDEO actually says that at the end.

    Are you ready to have you vernacular appropriated, bitches (a term of endearment)?!?!?!

    [Dave says: in the 00’s, a combination of several, alternating question marks and exclamation points indicate a question asked in an excited manner, often rhetorically.]

    I hadn’t heard that flip-flopping was called a “Romney” until the CBS video told me. Sure, I think it’s funny, but we already made up a word for someone who switches their original and honest opinion because it was unpopular: “Pitchfork reader.”

    As in: “Listen up home slice! Kerry totally Phil Ruwitch-ed the ott-four elec when the media pulled a mash-up and made him a Pitchfork reader.”

    These are the people who are now voting.

    Doesn’t that make you feel all warm in squishy inside?!?!?!

    Writerisms And Other Sins

    [This is reproduced from a writing Copyright 1995 by C.J. Cherryh.]

    Writerisms: overused and misused language. In more direct words: find ‘em, root ‘em out, and look at your prose without the underbrush.

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