Sweet Chariot
Today I've had two instances of people in allegedly high places - or at least assuming their own position of power - brought low, and neither of them was Mark Sanford. For the first, I was watching TV and someone mentioned how some vacuous skanks out of Jersey made her want to be in Salem in the 1800s. The crowd laughed and she said something to the effect of "Yeah, a little history for you, bitches". I don't think anyone else knew to point out that the Salem witch trials (I can't think of any other reason to bring up Salem in any other context whatsoever) happened in the 1600s (1650s?). The second happened just a few minutes ago, and actually refers to Sanford. A professor of rhetoric, who studies very much how we communicate and teach and interact with the world and each other, made a gaffe of grammar parallelism on a very basic level, going from "incredulous" to "befuddlement".
In the grand scheme, minor points, but they annoyed me.
In the grand scheme, minor points, but they annoyed me.