Hyperbole

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• Dems: GOP takeover just hyperbole

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  From NBC’s Domenico MontanaroDespite a noxious political environment and recent retirements of members in competitive districts, the man tasked with trying to stave off a terrible midterm election for House Democrats says his party will hold onto a majority. Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Chris ...
  13 hours ago

• DSM-V: Suggestions for Change

  
  World of Psychology — Authority: 561
  With the recent announcement (PDF) by the American Psychiatric Association of a one year delay for the latest revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (the DSM, as it’s known), a new round of commentary and articles have appeared questioning the usefulness of the DSM. The DSM is used ...
  23 hours ago

• U.S. Chamber Armed with Hyperbole, Bad Metaphors to Defeat Employee Free Choice Act

  
  SEIU — Authority: 143
  With the U.S. Senate rounding the final stretch of health care reform, attention is turning to the Employee Free Choice Act as a legislative priority in 2010. And the U.S. Chamber of Commerce will be right there to try and stop it . From Roll Call today: Business lobbyists will focus on others they may be able to ...
  3 days ago

• Hyperbole: Pussy rules the world

  
  expletive undeleted — Authority: 103
  FIRST of all, this is a bit of a long one, so if you’re not interested in 17th century poetry, punk rock fanzines, bleepy sounds from Sheffield, Badly Drawn Boy, bossa nova or cats, you’d probably best fuck off now. I promise I won’t be offended.Now, are we all sitting comfortably?The best ideas are often [...]
  3 days ago

• Annals of Hyperbole: Chace Crawford Edition

  
  Ephemerist — Authority: 114
  The opening volley of WWD’s piece on Chace Crawford:  “Like the Pussycat Dolls or Brad Pitt, Chace Crawford is the kind of perfect human specimen that should be freeze-dried and put in a time capsule so that, in several thousand years, whatever manlike species can get a sense of just how good we looked.”  ...
  6 days ago

• UTLA Teaches Great Vocab Word: “Hyperbole”

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 750
  By Neal McCluskey A good vocabulary word–and an important rhetorical device–that kids should learn is “hyperbole.” Indeed, in Los Angeles the teachers union has apparently thought illustrating hyperbole so important that the union has, on its own time, provided a crystal clear example of it. Talking ...
  1 week ago

• Redbox is Killing the Entertainment Industry

  
  [CinemaRatty] Latest Articles — Authority: 169
  Holy hyperbole, Batman! Economic study claims that $1 DVD rentals have cost the entertainment industry over $1 billion. FOR MORE DAILY MOVIE GOODNESS, VISIT FILMJUNK.COM !
  1 week ago

• Laundry List of Republican Lies Over Health Care

  
  kavips — Authority: 121
  I thought it would be an interesting exercise to pour over this weekends news and pull out any blatant falsehoods being offered to anyone with a microphone, by the outdated, obsolete, and obstinate Republican Party… Some Democrats comments showed up as well. Republicans objected because, according to Sen. Michael ...
  1 week ago

• Copenhagens hot air may help cool the planet

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  The Copenhagen climate change summit, which starts tomorrow in the Danish capital, is proving an irresistible draw for world leaders. More than 100 will attend, as well as 16,500 delegates, officials, advisers, royalty — including the Prince of Wales — and legions of journalists. Whether or not the summit achieves ...
  1 week ago

• The July 4th Mission

  
  The Starting Five — Authority: 425
  As your friendly neighborhood fitness consultant I have a confession to make. It’s a terrible one but it’s also a sign that I know how to solve a problem once I discover that I have it. Because If I see Tony Atlas one more god damned time. Just yesterday I woke up, put my cold feet on the floor, and then ...
  2 weeks ago

• Bombardment!

  
  The Midpoint — Authority: 122
  Hugo Chavez is planning to hurl some lightning bolts at the clouds : CARACAS, Venezuela – Hugo Chavez says he is starting to “bombard” clouds now that Cuba has provided Venezuela with cloud-seeding help in an effort to produce rain and alleviate the effects of a severe drought. The Venezuelan president ...
  2 weeks ago

• Who is behind Pharmageddon 2012?

  
  AdPharm Blog — Authority: 149
  YouTube video, part of the Pharmageddon 2012 self-promotional campaign for communications agencies Friday Morning and S+R communications. click here to visit the site To see all of the ads from this... Read the rest on AdPharms blog!
  2 weeks ago

• ”Well, were safe for now. Thank goodness were in a bowling alley.”

  
  Ambush Predator — Authority: 484
  Its a peril that only a crack team of health and safety experts could have uncovered. After two years and £250,000 , they found that ten-pin bowling alleys up and down the country could be a very dangerous environment for families. Really? How, exactly? Is this the danger of getting your fingers caught ...
  2 weeks ago

• That guy’s hung like an elephant

  
  The Midpoint — Authority: 122
  I was just up near Kingsport, TN for work the other day, and I learned about this . On September 11 , 1916 a hotel worker named Red Eldridge was hired as an assistant elephant trainer by the circus. On the evening of September 12 he was killed by Mary in Kingsport, Tennessee while taking her to a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Therapy 32x More Effective Than Money?!?

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
  New research finds therapy may be 32 times more effective at making you happy than simply obtaining money. By the way, how much are you spending on Christmas this year? Im more a practical guidance blogger than a dissect-the-research guy, but this was too good to pass up. The journal of Health Economics, Policy and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Technology & Internet Advances

  
  hotcrew57.com — Authority: 443
  These days the computer is amazingly powerful and can do so many things, its actually true and not hyperbole. We would shock people from the 1980s when there were no low cost powerful computers and no internet, its amazing how things have changed. Communications were achived using wired telephone lines not wireless or ...
  3 weeks ago

• Obama Creates Jobs; Just Not American Jobs

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 460
  Stimulus Creates A Limited Number Of "Real" New Jobs When The President Can Lead By Example, He Chooses Not To We have all heard the cries of success from the Administration on the supposed success of the Stimulus Bill in creating new jobs for the American people who are so desperate to find them. As ...
  3 weeks ago

• The decade the laughter died - Tube Ray Army

  
  Jake Cleland — Authority: 445
  The decade the laughter died - Tube Ray Army : I’ve said this before, but I think Working Dog (and associates) are the only company worth investing your hope in when it comes to Australian comedy. I watched the last five minutes of Double Take once (TV Burp was on next, and that Ed Kavalee is a dreamboat RIGHT ...
  3 weeks ago

• The comical falling forecasts for mobile ad spend

  
  Thought Gadgets — Authority: 522
  Übertechnologist Bob Cringely suggests mobile phones are leaping ahead of personal computers and will inevitably become the dominating communication platform on the planet. (He also says digital displays will someday float before our eyeballs, but lets not go too far just yet). That could be bad news for ...
  3 weeks ago

• The AP, describing a case the Supreme Court recently turned down, writes: "the school valedictorian strayed from an approved text to provide a graphic account of Jesus crucifixion..."

  
  Althouse — Authority: 727
  That piqued my curiosity, and not just because I teach "Religion and the Constitution" and want to know about the cases in the area. I wanted to know just how graphically a high school girl would describe the crucifixion in front of the assembled graduating class. During McCombs speech at the Foothill High School ...
  3 weeks ago

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