By Zay N. Smith
QT Digest of Mitt Romney’s Friday Speech on the U.S. Economy (for Your Convenience):
“We . . . have changed . . . our . . . principles . . . before . . . and . . . will . . . in . . . the future . . .”
QT will admit these excerpts are out of context.
Sort of.
Eight days to go.
Rush Limbaugh discussing women’s issues:
“If I were a woman–”
Wait! Warning!
Do not attempt to visualize this.
Too late?
Sorry.
Cully Johnston, a Chicago reader, regarding QT’s wondering, if a group of larks is an exaltation of larks, what a group of politicians should be called, writes:
“A scandal of politicians.”
Steve Magdziarz, an Elk Grove Village reader, writes:
“A profanity of politicians.”
Or. . . .
News Headline: “Hurricane Sandy rains on election.”
News Headline: “Campaign is dampened by hurricane.”
OK. Do we have this out of our system now?
News Headline: “Hurricane Sandy blows election off course.”
Evidently not.
News Headline: “Romney oversees football game between staff and reporters.”
There might be an idea here.
Why couldn’t we treat politics more like football?
News Headline: “Romney changes position on abortion in less than 24 hours.”
Flag. Illegal shift.
News Headline: “Obama silent on climate change.”
Flag. Intentional grounding.
Hey. This just might work.
The Case for Zero Tolerance of Modern School Administrators:
A Student at Canton South High School in Ohio was placed on in-school suspension because the hair he is growing for a charity that makes wigs for young cancer victims is now longer than the school dress code allows.
News Headline: “Romney T-shirts outselling Obama T-shirts.”
News Headline: “Chia Obama heads outselling Chia Romney heads.”
The trend is apparent.
News Item: “Colin Powell’s former chief of staff says the Republican Party is ‘full of racists’ who only want President Obama out of office because he’s black. ‘Let me just be candid: My party is full of racists,’ Col. Lawrence Wilkerson said. . . .”
The Republicans should take this as nothing less than an insult.
Accurate. But an insult.
QT What Passes for Miracles These Days Update:
+ An image of Jesus has been found on a piece of discarded wall paneling in a garage in Houston, Texas.
+ The word “Allah” has been found on the side of a goat in Ajmer, India.
We take our ecumenicalism where we can find it.
News Headline: “Paul Ryan defends the sanctity of life.”
Well. Unless it needs executing for some reason.
News Headline: “Bike path to avoid elf home.”
There is a case to be made for living in Iceland.
News Headline: “Axl Rose endorses Obama.”
News Headline: “Meat Loaf endorses Romney.”
Eight days to go.
News Headline: “Lawyers gird for possible recounts.”
News Headline: “Another Bush/Gore nightmare?”
All right. Maybe a month or two to go. . . .
From the QT Archive of Knowledge:
+ Charles Foster Kane’s other sled was named “Crusader.”
+ Forty-theven perthent of people who have worn tongue thtudth for four yearth have thipped teeth.
From Poor QT’s Almanack:
On this day in history 46 years ago the National Organization for Women was founded, and it hasn’t stopped its harping and nagging ever since about, oh, human rights.
QT Grammar R Us Seminar on the English Language:
News Headline: “. . . as the Giants were put through the ringer. . . .”
News Headline: “. . . America’s $15 trillion economy has been through the ringer. . . .”
QT was just thinking. The first frost is near. And then the first sprinkles of snow.
How long before the Salvation Army bell wringers are out?
And D.M., a Chicago reader, offers, meanwhile, a Halloween reminder:
The first syllable of “Jekyll,” as in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, rhymes with “bleak.”
And there is no “hollow” in Halloween.
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Posted on October 29, 2012