By: Elizabelle
@Joey Maloney: Gohmert sounds like “varmint” to me. His constituents, and Michelle Bachmann’s, have some ‘splainin’ to do.
View ArticleBy: Woodrowfan
@gnomedad: I bet you’re right. He’s continuing the brave fight against Political Correctness! (of course what we now call Political Correctness used to be called “being polite”)
View ArticleBy: Fort Geek
@Less Popular Tim: “Institution for Half-Wits, Morons, and other Mental Deficients” sounds like the® side of Congress. And some of the (D)s.
View ArticleBy: aimai
@Gian: They are already adapting on the word “homo”-a very common substitute is now the word “hobo.” Its just kind of an all purpose insult with no implication of effeminacy or anything specific to...
View ArticleBy: SenyorDave
Louie is that perfect combination of crazy and stupid that so rarely comes together in just the right proportion. I always wonder whether he is truly representative of his constituency (a scary...
View ArticleBy: Woodrowfan
@aimai: ohhh, there’s a story here! Where did you get banned? I could make a guess but it might start a flame war… (and for the record, anyone who’d ban you is a weenie, IMHO)
View ArticleBy: aimai
I got banned from Dealing with the In Laws and Family of Origin—that’s actually the name of the website. Its kind of an odd place but I miss it and its quite eye opening about the state of familial...
View ArticleBy: Woodrowfan
Aimai, oops, sorry, I thought that was just a fanciful nickname sort of like “The great orange satan” is for Dkos. Oh well, i am sorry you were banned. Their loss…
View ArticleBy: Matt McIrvin
@Gian: There’s certainly a euphemism treadmill in which neutral terms rapidly turn into insults referring to the stigmatized population. “Idiot”, “imbecile” and “moron” were mainstream technical terms...
View ArticleBy: Interrobang
@Less Popular Tim: The actual technical term for that sort of thing in linguistics is “pejorization.” Which sort of sounds like an insult itself, but it’s the verb form of “pejorative.” You’re welcome....
View ArticleBy: Another Halocene Human
@Less Popular Tim: clinical !== scientific, or useful “clinical” gives us stuff like backcracking (and sudden strokes and deaths in healthy young people as the result of cervical manipulation) We’re...
View ArticleBy: Another Halocene Human
@Raven: 3. Are you now or have you been within the last ten (10) years a member of any organization which to your knowledge at the time of membership advocates or has as one of its objectives, the...
View ArticleBy: Jay C
The word “lunatic” will be stricken from federal law under legislation that passed the House on Wednesday and is headed to President Obama for his signature. *** The lone “no” vote was cast by...
View Article
