Word: pogo
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...Americans fell to a liberal, sometimes radical "new class"-academics, elitists, journalists -which, although accurate up to a point, somehow got the story wrong or told it from a vantage point of supercilious and frequently privileged hostility. "We have met the enemy and he is us," they wrote, quoting Pogo. Americans developed a moral inferiority complex of historic proportions: where once they hubristically viewed themselves as the world's best, many came to see America as the worst...
...state and local bureaucracies collect larger revenues without having to put tax increases to a vote. Every 1% increase in inflation results in a 1.5% growth in personal income tax revenues. Consumers and politicians waging war on inflation might adopt a motto of the late great comic strip character Pogo: "We have met the enemy...
...Pogo riot...
...there is any lesson to be learned from ventures of this sort, it is that middleclass, middle-brow people should not try to show their superiority to other middleclass, middle-brow people by at tempting to satirize them. In the process they only prove the truth of Pogo's immortal cry: "We have met the enemy...
...only faster, deeper, higher, with different equipment or at a different age. The act of dying is one of the very few human activities that do not stir up competitive fever among people. "After Sir Edmund Hillary," says Boston Globe Columnist M.R. Montgomery, "you can climb Everest on a pogo stick without attracting envy or admiration." But, in fact, once the notion of climbing a mountain by pogo stick has been conceived, it would not be surprising if somebody...