ADVENTURES IN EUPHEMISM: “Asian Americans are learning to deal with diversity in the changing landscape of college admissions.” Yes, they are learning to deal with being discriminated against on the basis of race in college admissions, which we’ll call “diversity.” Lee says that she usually tries to at least mention arguments in favor of diversity […]
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ADVENTURES IN EUPHEMISM: “I wouldn’t characterize it as a terrorist event. I would classify it as a group of individuals that had some beliefs and were willing to carry out violent acts against citizens.”
ADVENTURES IN EUPHEMISM: “I wouldn’t characterize it as a terrorist event. I would classify it as a group of individuals that had some beliefs and were willing to carry out violent acts against citizens.” He didn’t say what the beliefs were, other than that “they were not culturally based.” What does that even mean?
AVENTURES IN EUPHEMISM: “We did see a lot of individuals that were not from the eastern area of the county,” says police chief about flash mob brawlers.
ADVENTURES IN EUPHEMISM: “We did see a lot of individuals that were not from the eastern area of the county,” says police chief about flash mob brawlers. Monroeville Police Chief K. Douglas Cole told Channel 11 News that there were about 1,000 children and teens in the mall when up to six different fights took […]
ACT OF LOVE: Man charged with raping University of Delaware student. “Candido Tepoz, 28, of Mexico but lives in the Newark area, was charged with one count of second-degree rape, two counts each of third-degree unlawful sexual contact and second-degree unlawful imprisonment, one count of criminal impersonation and two traffic offenses, said UD spokeswoman Donna […]
ADVENTURES IN EUPHEMISM: MSNBC’s Harris-Perry: Muslim Beheading In Oklahoma Was ‘Workplace Violence’. Hmm, sounds familiar.
ADVENTURES IN EUPHEMISM: Nurse Accused of Having “Unsolicited” Sex With Patient. “While a man was lying in his bed in a southwest suburban hospital, medicated and waiting for a heart transplant, a nurse entered his room and ‘initiated unsolicited sexual relations, including intercourse,’ according to lawsuit filed Monday.” Remember, it’s only rape if she regrets […]
ADVENTURES IN EUPHEMISM, EXTREME EDITION: When a medical miracle leads to painful choice. Yes, we all know what “choice” means. Interestingly, this involves an Irish couple and an Indian IVF clinic making that choice for a surrogate mother. Euphemisms abound [with comments in brackets]: It’s the medical miracle that can become a nightmare. “Pregnancy reduction” […]
ADVENTURES IN EUPHEMISM: My College Betrayed By ObamaCare ‘Marketing Slogans’. “Mike Convente, a left-wing Daily Kos diarist and a representative on the University of Pennsylvania health care committee, took to the pages of Kos to complain about the ‘law of unintended consequences’ of ObamaCare. Convente is also upset that Obama’s ‘marketing slogans … turned out […]
ADVENTURES IN EUPHEMISM: The nine best quotes from President Obama’s news conference. “With respect to the pledge I made that if you like your plan you can keep it … the way I put that forward, unequivocally, ended up not being accurate.”
ADVENTURES IN EUPHEMISM: Brown signs bill to allow children more than two legal parents. “The bill was partially a reaction to a 2011 court decision involving a lesbian couple that briefly ended their relationship, according to Leno’s office. One of the women was impregnated by a man before the women resumed their relationship. A fight […]
ADVENTURES IN EUPHEMISM: $175 premium for a young, healthy student? Thanks, Obamacare! During a congressional hearing in August, Rep. Mike Pompeo, R-Kan., asked Marilyn Tavenner of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services whether President Obama’s promise that “if you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan” was true. “It […]
ADVENTURES IN EUPHEMISM: “My intent was to be inclusive but my phrasing suggested otherwise.” Yes, lack of inclusiveness was certainly “suggested” by the phrasing, “In order to create a safe space, this program is open to people of color only.”
ADVENTURES IN EUPHEMISM: ‘Pro-choice’ woman describes ‘nightmare’ chemical abortion at Planned Parenthood. “‘After two hours of this,’ Kay says, ‘I felt a rush of blood and a large lemon-sized clot came out. I assume that was the pregnancy. I was horrified. Why hadn’t anyone told me that it would be like this?’” I didn’t realize […]
ADVENTURES IN EUPHEMISM: Pro-opposition Syria analyst O’Bagy admits she was never enrolled in Ph.D. program. O’Bagy was fired last week from the Institute for the Study of War after the think tank alleged she lied about her education credentials. The institute claimed O’Bagy did not have a Ph.D. degree from Georgetown University as she had […]
ADVENTURES IN EUPHEMISM, UK EDITION: Gangs of Asian men are grooming underage MUSLIM girls too. So when they’re perpetrators, they’re “Asian,” and when they’re victims, they’re “Muslim.” Got it.
ADVENTURES IN EUPHEMISM: It’s not plagiarism; it’s just “language from already published sources without using proper citation methods.”
ADVENTURES IN EUPHEMISM: Abortion Clinic Closes in Michigan, Woman Was Forced to Have Abortion There. “When she said stop, it was too late… I told her I would stop, but when I take my instrument there was blood and tissue on it from pregnancy, so I couldn’t stop.” Yes, “tissue on it from pregnancy.”