Comments on: Battle of the Participles

By: Aaron Haspel

Aaron Haspel — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 18:20:58 +0000

“Knuckle-dragging,” in my experience, is rarely offered in the spirit of a redeemed epithet.

By: Bug

Bug — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 23:34:33 +0000

Here’s his research methodology

To be fair, that’s just an anecdote he gives to make his point. He never claims it’s a methodology or says how he knows that the right “owns” these kinds of compounds — maybe he just googled it, maybe he’s got real studies to back it up. Has anybody asked him whether he’s talking from evidence in this particular case or just off-the-cuff?

By: paul

paul — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 14:28:03 +0000

You mean, silver-bulleting won’t work? Damn!

By: Alex Knapp

Alex Knapp — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 05:28:07 +0000

What I never understood is why lattes = liberal.

By: jhm

jhm — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 01:43:15 +0000

Let us not forget the FOX news propensity to replace “Sen. X, voting for more pork today” for “Mr. X voted for more pork today.”

By: Julian Sanchez

Julian Sanchez — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 22:04:31 +0000

And yet interesting, “Fucking Republicans”=15,500 and “Fucking Democrats”=660. So I think that’s mostly an asymmetry between the tendency to identify an ideology as the enemy on the right, vs. the party for the left. Which makes sense, when you think about it: Republicans are in power now, so ire on the left will tend to be directed that way, whereas folk on the right seem to be more irritated by the cultural power of the left (Hollywood, academia, etc.)

By: Dee

Dee — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 21:29:59 +0000

addendum:

“f***ing liberals” = 11,100 hits.

“f***ing conservatives” = 2,460 hits.

By: Dee

Dee — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 21:27:52 +0000

I searched on “ing conservatives” with 246 hits,

and

“ing liberals” with 3,930 hits.

Seems f***ing was the most common descriptor.