The Guardian's headline is 'How Going Green May Make You Mean.' We're inclined to think the chain of causation runs the other way—that people who are jerks to begin with gravitate toward verdant sanctimony.

James Taranto

Tags: environmentalism jerks meanness nastiness sanctimony the-guardian



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Do You Come Here Often?' and 'Be Part of the Action' Have Become Clichéd
"Coast Guard Sees Increasing Need for Icebreakers"—headline, Associated Press, March 1

James Taranto

Tags: humour cliches puns icebreakers icebreakers-facilitation



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The American people are fed up...with political posturing.' True, but also an example of political posturing.

James Taranto

Tags: politics hypocrisy barack-obama twitter 2011 2011-us-debt-ceiling-crisis posturing



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Because of racism, he can't govern effectively' is not a great argument for re-election.

James Taranto

Tags: politics united-states racism barack-obama twitter 2011 us-presidential-election-2012



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Scary discovery of the day: Most people who RT @yokoono's tweets do so without irony.

James Taranto

Tags: irony twitter 2011 yoko-ono



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Some libs took offense at my David Broder quip earlier. In my own defense, I was taught in college it's OK to disrespect dead white males.

James Taranto

Tags: liberalism political-correctness offence twitter 2011 david-s-broder dead-white-males



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