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April 2, 2006:

Verbal politics.

Granted that nationalization is bad, don't use the word. Substitute "socialization". Presto chango! More accurately: flick and swish. Problem solved.

Once upon a time this branch of scholarship was called "Rhetoric". Now it's called "Postmodernism". It's the same discipline. It's what gave "sophistry" a bad name.

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