Comments on: Code Words

By: squidboot

squidboot — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:50:50 +0000

interestingly, this use of interpellation can also be used as a means of pacing; speaking directly to a subject in such a way that (s)he becomes a split spectator, establishing the character of subsequent encounters as pertaining to a sense of defensive heightened awareness – establishing the grounds to suggest a state of trance.

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Ulv! Ulv! - Rolf om Reklame » Vage metaforer som kynisk retorikk — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 06:18:51 +0000

[...] ved første og neste anledning. Cosmic Variance peker på eksempler i den amerikanske politikken Code Words på Cosmic Variance: For Barack Obama, the particular audience is African-Americans. He rarely brings up race directly, [...]

By: The Almighty Bob

The Almighty Bob — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 02:31:48 +0000

Or there’s the direct translation: basically, “The President needs to be alive, and possibly allergic to sitting, and needs to in possession of a pair of frontal lobes”.

Probably the only reading that accurately describes the next incumbent, too. “,)

What a shining example of complete bullshit that statement is.

By: JimBob

JimBob — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 01:16:48 +0000

Fauth, my foot, it’s worse….

It isn’t vertical thinking, as one word. READ, firstly. Huckster stated “…vertical [comma] who is thinking”.

Vertical reads as a referral to being ‘upright’, like man, not primate. Period. Adding thinking, reads as a referral to said first comment, inferring that primates do not think. A slur, period.

Good riddance to your rubbish, Huckabee. We don’t love thee.

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In the U.S. south, is Canadian a new racial slur? « Notes — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:35:41 +0000

[...] There’s an interesting blog post linked about Mike Huckabee’s use of [...]

By: Blacksmith

Blacksmith — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:20:46 +0000

I know it is difficult to consider such a notion seriously, but what kind of notoriety would a scientist gain if s/he were able to prove the existence of divinity?

By: The Almighty Bob

The Almighty Bob — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 11:32:27 +0000

Um, not so much. It may be faith, but there’s no ‘vertical thinking’ to go with it. Vertical thinking, in this case, is believing everything is dictated by God (whatever that means). Rather difficult when you thoroughly believe there isn’t one….

By: Jeff Dickey

Jeff Dickey — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 11:02:22 +0000

@Tacitus: That in itself is an expression of faith, hence ‘vertical thinking’ in the opposite direction. Cf. Rush’s song ‘Freewill’

By: The Almighty Bob

The Almighty Bob — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 01:01:11 +0000

Thanks, TomC. It was giving me a slight itch, but I have heard it used before, and said itch has produced false positives before. I knew “most of us [whatever]” was very wrong. Perhaps I should have said “more correct.”

Of course, the correct formulation also grates slightly – but that’s merely my dislike for the passive voice( unless absolutely necessary).

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Politics: The Republican Field « blueollie — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 22:51:41 +0000

[...] Of course, Huckabee takes direction directly from his god; note the constant use of the term “vertical…. [...]

By: TomC

TomC — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 19:33:16 +0000

Absolutely, Sean. No such thing as bad publicity for we horizontal thinkers.

By: Sean

Sean — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:12:09 +0000

TomC, I think you’re right. I wrote the “we horizontal thinkers” first, and modified it later. But I’ll leave it as it is, as we’re now the number one Google hit for “most of we”, and that can’t be bad, can it?

By: TomC

TomC — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 17:30:44 +0000

I disagree strongly (even though no one’s reading this thread anymore). “Of” is a preposition, the following noun of which will always take the objective case. “We are horizontal thinkers, most of whom didn’t notice Huckabee’s formulation.”

By: Chanda

Chanda — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 16:53:40 +0000

Sean — you might want to have a look at Gary Younge’s analysis of Obama in relation to the Civil Rights movement, which was published in Monday’s Guardian (UK). Younge has a history of incisive writing about that movement and its legacy, and I think what he says is quite insightful. You can have a look here.

When I read your entry last night, I was wondering why that rhetoric hadn’t seemed to speak to anyone in my circle who participated in those struggles, and I think this article answers that question.

By: The Almighty Bob

The Almighty Bob — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 15:51:17 +0000

What, you’d prefer “most of us horizontal thinkers”?
“[many, most, some, few, etc.] of we [collective noun]” is correct English.

By: TomC

TomC — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 14:49:15 +0000

“Most of we”? “MOST OF WE”?

When I saw that, I forgot what the rest of the post was about. Perhaps that’s Sean intended…

By: Ian B Gibson

Ian B Gibson — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 04:39:40 +0000

Most of we horizontal thinkers didn’t even notice Huckabee’s formulation, I’m sure.

Yeah; we’d never have known he represents the antithesis of our own world-view if not for this post, since he’s just so subtle!

Close shave there.

By: the Almighty Bob

the Almighty Bob — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 04:22:47 +0000

#9, lylebot
The references on that Wikipedia page are all 2005 or younger, which tends to confirm my theory: that it’s a new buzzword on an old ‘Net concept – the specialist search engine. The joys of Web 2.0; everything old is new again! And probably in perpetual beta.

By: Dr. Free-Ride

Dr. Free-Ride — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 02:07:05 +0000

It will be interesting to see what happens if he wins another primary or two.

Can we please do a less scary thought experiment, like maybe talking about what could happen if lab-generated black holes escaped?

By: Eugene

Eugene — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 02:01:36 +0000

Vertical sounds like a hot stud. Horizontal sounds like somebody who has too much beer.