Word: hogwash
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...Reid's claim that George W. Bush would reduce Social Security benefits 40% was hogwash. The President has merely stated the obvious, that reductions will be necessary. Reid also made the absurd comparison between Bush's very conservative investment-account proposal and Las Vegas gaming tables. Finally, there was the boorish and possibly unprecedented hooting of the President by Democrats during the speech...
...above all, the Emmys are about entertaining us. Forget all the hogwash about their being "a celebration of the TV business" - once an awards show occupies three-plus hours of national television, with paid advertisements, its sole duty is to amuse and never bore us. (This is why I've never felt sorry for any actor or actress who goes over the acceptance-speech limit and gets played off stage: if they want to give long, self-indulgent, weepy speeches, they can give the awards at a private, untelevised ceremony at a nice restaurant in L.A. and talk as long...
...government hasn't been able to negotiate a deal to avoid the bizarre and politically disastrous outcome of being penalized for economic growth. A debate has sprung up in Slovenia about whether the government should take the absurd step of cooling the economy down to remain eligible for subsidies. "Hogwash," says Janez Potocnik, the Minister for European Affairs. "I would gladly postpone joining the E.U. if we could raise our GDP by another percentage point." The 53% of Slovenians who either think that joining the E.U. is a bad idea or are neutral can be excused for their lack...
There's a new survey out saying that people who take a positive view of aging actually live longer than those who grouse and grumble, which is hogwash, and I am paying no attention to it. I turned 60 last week and it's no picnic, and anybody who says so is whistling in the dark. Maybe this doesn't sound life-affirming to you. So--shoot...
...death of irony" may be exaggerated too. Many critics read Letterman's emotional return as the sudden maturing of a wiseacre who had never manifested any real beliefs. As any Letterman fan knows, this is reductive hogwash. "Irony"--as popularly misused to mean a mishmash of easy sarcasm, cynicism and detachment--is ludicrous at a time of mourning, as is Letterman's meaningful irony (which is really a principled response to phoniness). But real irony--the basis of satire--is possible and valuable in addressing war. (Catch-22 and M*A*S*H, for instance, are darkly ironic yet serious...