Word: sarcasm
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...black art that carried him far. When he was packed off to Phillips Academy, where sarcasm (irony's nasty little sibling) was the only language spoken, Dubya crafted derogatory nicknames for classmates; but defying custom, he would use them to their face. Such was his cool-guy swagger that he was apparently able to pull this off, if for no other reason than nicknames imply recognition, not nothing in the adolescent struggle for selfhood. And as he attracted new descriptors for himself, like Lip and Tweeds, it was surely during this period that Bush gave nicknaming a permanent place...
...Cabinet-level positions, we've heard horror stories about previously normal people who went to Washington and returned hollow shells of their former selves. Apparently, we're not a nation of Mr. Smiths. More like a nation of Dan Rostenkowskis. We've heard about shedding all irony and sarcasm and adopting that unflattering "I'm a public servant, I'm here to serve" pseudo-sincerity. And yes, we (well, one of us anyway) have also heard about those horrible mid-calf-length skirts...
...Just then, a huge thunderbolt strikes the mountain right near Christ's statue. Maybe God is a Papa Roach fan and didn't like my sarcasm. I suddenly realize that I'm standing on top of a mountain in a thunderstorm and my only transportation down is in a steel cable car held up by steel cables. I try to keep my eyes on Cristo Redentor the whole way down...
...Agree with his judicial philosophy or not, for instance, but Antonin Scalia's dripping sarcasm alone could fuel a small cable channel's ratings. Under questioning, Florida secretary of state lawyer Joseph Klock began, "We have not addressed the federal issues, because -" Scalia cut him off: "Well, this is a federal court!" To Laurence Tribe, on the question of whether the Florida legislature might have "invited" the state supreme court's intervention, Scalia - alluding to legislature's disdain for court action, sneered, "Maybe your experience of the legislative branch is different from mine...
...something admirable about his sticking earnestly to his pearl-handled guns. Star is the more innovative producer, who mines glitter gulches for gems, but also one for whom every sincere emotion is likely to set up a knowing punch line. That's not to say he indulges in easy sarcasm; the Pointe flap shows sarcasm is anything but easy in Hollywood. At least the WB let stand a swipe at a network exec as "the genius who told Felicity to cut her hair." But if the WB's brass can't stomach satire that's bound to hit close...