Tuesday, August 15, 2006
The Power of Words
We are becoming a people who love to insult, who love to call names, who love to throw invective---on our freeways, in our streets, in newspapers, in blogs, in our media.
And, the uglier the language, the better the press coverage! What inspires me to laugh is that those who throw around the ugliest of words are the first to take offense when the arrows head in their direction.
A certain mayor of a Californian seacoast town has taken exception to a fellow councilperson's recent public warning, "Beware of [my colleague]!" The mayor condemns his colleague's published remarks as "desparate name calling."
The man can't take the heat. He can't stand a challenge. He denigrates each and every opposing view as "silly."
And, what sickens me most of all is that this mayor is a buddy and, consequently, the mouthpiece for a local blogger who simply oozes hatred and racist filth in his published writings on the Net.
We all need to stop the name calling. We need to moderate our language. We need to return to reason!
We need to get to the polls and vote the B*%MS out!
And, the uglier the language, the better the press coverage! What inspires me to laugh is that those who throw around the ugliest of words are the first to take offense when the arrows head in their direction.
A certain mayor of a Californian seacoast town has taken exception to a fellow councilperson's recent public warning, "Beware of [my colleague]!" The mayor condemns his colleague's published remarks as "desparate name calling."
The man can't take the heat. He can't stand a challenge. He denigrates each and every opposing view as "silly."
And, what sickens me most of all is that this mayor is a buddy and, consequently, the mouthpiece for a local blogger who simply oozes hatred and racist filth in his published writings on the Net.
We all need to stop the name calling. We need to moderate our language. We need to return to reason!
We need to get to the polls and vote the B*%MS out!
