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...fact, a no-brainer, a perfect metaphor. The Taliban closed schools; the Americans opened them. That this particular school was located deep in the enemy heartland, in a district - Zhari - that was 80% controlled by the Taliban, an area the Russians called the Heart of Darkness and eventually refused to travel through, in a town that will be strategically crucial when the most important battle of the war in Afghanistan - the battle for Kandahar - is contested this summer, made it all the more perfect. (See pictures of the battle against the Taliban...
...motivating his arguments, because he does occasionally make truly insightful observations. In a chapter titled “Hunting Instincts” he compares the theatrical experience to that of a hunt, insofar as the audience experiences a primal drive to follow the plot along. He uses this metaphor to account for the suspension of disbelief: “We suspend the rational process of intellectualization, which is to say, of the comparison of phenomenon to idea, which is a process too slow for the hunt.” The connection he draws between the theater and the primal rings...
Take as a metaphor a train stringing together 16 engines; these are the members of the Eurozone. Each has to steam along at the same speed. If any or several of the 16 engineers throw too much coal into the boiler by way of excessive government spending, the train will derail. That's grade-school physics...
...like it when I mentioned his February statement about former Vice President Dick Cheney’s heart, “We ought to rip it out and kick it around and stuff it back in him.” Ed now defends his words as a metaphor about heart transplants and who receives health care. But if the left feels free to use such figures of speech, why do they condemn the language of the right...
...really can be relied on at all times and in all places to deliver the most prosperous and just society possible, then we'd be idiots not to get out of the way and let it work its magic. Plus, the supply-meets-demand straightforwardness of the invisible-hand metaphor lends itself to mathematical treatment, and math is the language in which economists communicate with one another...