At my blog I consider the bad-faith formulation of our time — “In an age of terror, X” — the first refuge of blogging scoundrels.
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At my blog I consider the bad-faith formulation of our time — “In an age of terror, X” — the first refuge of blogging scoundrels.
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In an age of terror, it’s incredibly important to send small, unmarked bills to somebody named “Pennywit.”
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“In an age of terror, Y” — the second refuge of blogging scoundrels.
In an age of terror, letters used to denote unknown variables are working twice as hard, for half the pay. It’s Bush’s fault.
In an age of terror, it figures that you’d come up with such a formulation.
(I think I may have an addiction to being a smart-[donkey].)
“In an age of terror it is determination which is most feared.”
I’ve wondered about that myself. Is it because he’s dyslexic?
In an age of terror, an age of terror is in you!
In Soviet Russia, you are an age of terror.
Not to mention how it’s just a mere “Age of Terror” — mainly because it isn’t an “Age of World War”, both of which were clearly far worse.
So even if one were to accept the flawed fallacy of the ‘reasoning’ involved, one still wouldn’t have a valid and supportable case ITFP, because this “Age of Terror” fails to provide the grounds of sufficient threat necessary.
But try telling that to people mongering the ol’ FUAD, and regardless of where they’re postmongering it, whether Huffpo or PJM or the monosource media.
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