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...elitist” also came into currency only when Obama observed that Pennsylvanians are “bitter” and “cling to guns or religion,” yet somehow Shipler declared that “‘elitist’ is another word for ‘arrogant,’ which is another word for ‘uppity’”—claiming, ergo, that any word synonymous with a synonym of a racial slur is a racial slur...
...these words have been used against white politicians in the past. John Kennedy was called inexperienced, and John Kerry elitist and arrogant, for reasons other than blackness. Granted, some words, like “welfare queens” and “busing,” have used blacks as wedges between whites, but the terms “inexperienced,” “socialist,” and “elitist” have no such racial dimension. The truth is that nearly any word can be construed as racial. By labeling every argument against...
...musicians, New Found Glory have almost always sung about nothing but. They’ve long since run out of creative or interesting ways to talk about the subject, if these were ever accessible to them. It’s difficult to even cull exemplary lyrics, since almost every word that the group records is totally inane, but by the time the album progresses through it’s blurry B-side to the penultimate “This Isn’t You,” the simile “Your words break me down like a wrecking...
Harvard offers a subsidy to eligible employees to purchase public transit passes from the MBTA, and there has been no word so far from the University that increased fares would change these benefits...
...Drug traffickers use their war chests to attack vulnerable countries through business acquisitions, corruption and violence. These processes inevitably converge, as at stake is more than just money laundering and intimidation: drug cartels buy more than real estate, banks and business. They buy elections, candidates and parties. In a word, they buy power. (Read "Mexico's Drug War Takes to the Barricades...