tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3152270.post110937427922325072..comments2024-03-17T10:40:52.762-05:00Comments on The Buck Stops Here: Volokh and SlateStuart Buckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05731724396708879386noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3152270.post-1109448688141364542005-02-26T14:11:00.000-06:002005-02-26T14:11:00.000-06:00I had thought of doing a similar post using the te...I had thought of doing a similar post using the term 'Bushismism.' (It has a certain onomatopoetic awkwardness.)<br /><br />To paraphrase Bush, the "Bushism" series is a lot like Swiss cheese: it's ineffective.Michael Drakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06141593700908475896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3152270.post-1109423962061836042005-02-26T07:19:00.000-06:002005-02-26T07:19:00.000-06:00Slate, and all those Democratic sophisticates who ...Slate, and all those Democratic sophisticates who judge Bush by his pronunciation of "nuclear," need to go back to their Bacon: "[The study of eloquence] grew speedily to an excess; for men began to hunt more after words than matter; more after the choiceness of the phrase, and the round and clean composition of the sentence, and the sweet falling of the clauses, and the varying and illustration of their works with tropes and figures, than after the weight of matter, worth of subject, soundness of argument, life of invention or depth of judgment." (Advancement of Learning, I)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3152270.post-1109387827742994362005-02-25T21:17:00.000-06:002005-02-25T21:17:00.000-06:00How about "slatomoric," related to "sophomoric," a...How about "slatomoric," related to "sophomoric," and meaning "characterized by an ADD emphasis on twentysomething smartass style over substance?"<br /><br />And actually I prefer "slaton" to "slatism" for the name given an individual elementary act like a buffoonism Bushism. The etymology is related both to "moron" as well as to the scientific name of particles, e.g. "electron" (elementary unit of negative charge) and "photon" (elementary unit of light).<br /><br />That allows us to reserve "slatism" for the philosophy of those who emit and consume slatons.<br /><br />Behaviour merely reminiscent of pure disciplined slatism can be contemptuously dismissed as mere "slatery" (noun) or only "slatoid" (adjective).<br /><br />Something that is highly slatish but not a genuine slaton would be a "pseudoslaton" -- try saying <I>that</I> five times fast!<br /><br />The study of slatons themselves is "slatics", of their evolution in time "slatodynamics," and of the culture they engender "slatology." The science of quantifying slatons is "slatometry" and the instrumentation is, of course, a "slatometer."<br /><br />egad, the mind staggers. . .Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3152270.post-1109378447806485582005-02-25T18:40:00.000-06:002005-02-25T18:40:00.000-06:00Beautiful. Just beautiful.Beautiful. Just beautiful.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com