Grumpy?

Sunday 13 June 2010 - Filed under Dumbassery + Journalism

Monica Davey of The New York Times on the Kansas idea of the proposed “Office of the Repealer”:

In some corners of the country, people seem to have grown so grumpy about the tangle of government rules and regulations that it may be easier for politicians to promise not what they will do, but what they will undo

. . .

The idea of shedding archaic or dopey laws is not new, but there seems now to be a flurry of such efforts — one more sign, perhaps, of the wave of grumpiness.

Even the insanely dense, fresh out of high school students in my freshmen composition courses knew better how to use a thesaurus. Some of them even knew when certain adjectives are appropriate and when they aren’t.  It seems that the writers at the Times have been taking lessons on the curious use of descriptive nouns from those at The Wall Street Journal.

2010-06-13  »  madlibertarianguy