Category: rhetoric
Hyperbole and three-quarters
A Sermon for Juneteenth
Martin Luther King, Jr. on Shattered Dreams and Unfulfilled Hopes
In Which Your Humble Blogger is grateful to the King Center Archive, the King Institute at Stanford, and the Collected Papers published by the University of California Press.
Election Day, November 2016
In Which Your Humble Blogger has already wept this morning once, from the beauty of it.
RNC 2016 Day One Evening
In Which Your Humble Blogger is cross and cranky, and doesn’t even begin to talk about the plagiarism thing.
Outside the Room
In Which Your Humble Blogger returns to mansplain about mansplaining, because somebody has to.
Five More Years! Five More Years!
In Which Your Humble Blogger is melancholy but not mad; bitter but not bathetic; snarky but not sensible.
Step by Step, the Longest March
In Which Your Humble Blogger still misses the metaphors, but that’s really my problem, not anyone else’s.
llama, llama, apple, hussyfscap
In Which Your Humble Blogger is pretty sure it’s the two-ell llama that’s a beast, and the one-ell lama that’s a priest. I should probably check, though.