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Your correspondent is an admirer of the stylings of Matt Taibbi; consider, e.g., “The Great Bubble Machine,” wherein Taibbi compares Goldman Sachs to “a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of...
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Cretin (n), “A stupid, vulgar, or insensitive person.” It’s ironic that cretin is used to describe an insensitive person, because its origin is terribly insensitive. Cretin, like spaz, is an insult...
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source To Epictetus’ dictum in the title of this post, one might add “disdain”… “That most deformed concept-cripple of all time.” - Friedrich Nietzsche on Immanuel Kant “Hegel, installed from above,...
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A man whose wit was matched only by the looseness of his tongue, the combative John Adams quickly acquired a hefty reputation for articulate jabs and razor-sharp put-downs at the expense of his...
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Bumblepuppist Definition – a bad whist player Every so often you need a specific insult, and bumblepuppist is about as specific as they get. We will grant you that the game of whist is not as popular...
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