masters of reality
well, the recent "troop surge" hasn't chilled out the iraqi insurgency very effectively, and u.s. soldiers are looking at longer tours in the middle east, but NEVER FEAR!!! because the bush administration is considering the appointment of a WAR CZAR to oversee operations in iraq and afghanistan, and to help clean up the mess.
only an administration as arrogant, isolated and oblivious as our current one could come up with a phrase of such pseudo-satantic, dumbass proportions as WAR CZAR and not expect the masses to immediately envision something like this:
seriously, y'all-- A WAR CZAR???
does he wear a goat's head for a hat? does he meet the drug czar in an opium den to watch dancing ladies & gnaw ham off of a bone? if the administration is gonna be this tactless about the connotations of its own language, than i suggest we rename the white house the neverland ranch and start over.
george orwell once said that "... if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought." perhaps the most troubling thing here is not simply that a high ranking government official obtains a title more fit for a high school heavy metal band, but that ordinary people will get used to calling someone that. our foreign policy ain't the lead guitarist for uriah heep, folks. let's steal our language back.
only an administration as arrogant, isolated and oblivious as our current one could come up with a phrase of such pseudo-satantic, dumbass proportions as WAR CZAR and not expect the masses to immediately envision something like this:
seriously, y'all-- A WAR CZAR???
does he wear a goat's head for a hat? does he meet the drug czar in an opium den to watch dancing ladies & gnaw ham off of a bone? if the administration is gonna be this tactless about the connotations of its own language, than i suggest we rename the white house the neverland ranch and start over.
george orwell once said that "... if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought." perhaps the most troubling thing here is not simply that a high ranking government official obtains a title more fit for a high school heavy metal band, but that ordinary people will get used to calling someone that. our foreign policy ain't the lead guitarist for uriah heep, folks. let's steal our language back.