Word: explainer
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...standpoint, is he took 20 years of complicated psychology and distilled it down into things a layman could really understand,” she says. “His book is so powerful because he has the amazing ability to generate the most outlandish and creative ideas to explain the concept he’s trying to get across...
Indeed, he isn’t even afraid to make use of scatalogical examples. In “Stumbling,” Gilbert uses his granddaughter’s massive collection of books about feces to explain our inability to learn from our mistakes. Unlike babies, we have no excuse for repeating our “pooping errors” and refusing to learn “proper potty protocol...
Racism exists, but it doesn’t explain many of the economic disparities among minorities. Sexism is the other scapegoat that Democrats fleece. Clinton often sobs that women earn “just 77 cents for every dollar that a man makes.” But those 23 cents aren’t lining some sexist employer’s pockets. Because women are the only ones who can have children, they are more likely to take time off to care for those children, losing experience and seniority. To devote more time to family, many women choose fields that...
...closed San Francisco fund raiser, referring to rural blue-collar workers who have been hard hit by outsourcing and declining wages. "They cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations...
Obama has since apologized if he offended anyone and has tried to put the remarks in context, saying it shouldn't be surprising that a lot of people are angry given the government's failure to improve their lot. But his efforts to explain the nuances of his meaning have largely been lost amidst an all-out assault by the Clinton campaign, and with just six days left before the all important Pennsylvania primary next Tuesday, the gaffe came at a particularly bad time. He had been gaining in Keystone State polls, coming within 6 percentage points of Clinton last...