Leverage is a great thing.
8/05/2009Convince city council to mandate wrenching posts be installed in everyone’s yard.
A metal rod with an eyelet would help yank old freezers out of people’s basements with ease.
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Back homeConvince city council to mandate wrenching posts be installed in everyone’s yard.
A metal rod with an eyelet would help yank old freezers out of people’s basements with ease.
A law that mandates twittering for public officials.
All meetings, phone calls, thoughts, lunches, dinners, stall chats, and other interactions should be documented–in real-time. These politicians have staffers follow them everywhere, so let’s put those Blackberries, iPhones, and Android-based devices to good use.
Let us push to have mandatory twittering for public officials!
How to Tell if a Band is a Christian Band
| device | HUMOR | WIT | SATIRE | SARCASM |
| motive/aim | discovery | throwing light | amendment | inflicting pain |
| province | human nature | words & ideas | morals & manners | faults & foibles |
| method/means | observation | surprise | accentuation | inversion |
| audience | the sympathetic | the intelligent | the self-satisfied | victim & bystander |
| device | INVECTIVE | IRONY | CYNICISM | SARDONIC |
| motive/aim | discredit | exclusiveness | self-justification | self-relief |
| province | misconduct | statement of facts | morals | adversity |
| method/means | direct statement | mystification | exposure of nakedness | pessimism |
| victim & bystander | the public | an inner circle | the respectable | the self |
Imagine if our ancestors filled their leisure time with passive activities. Where would we be today?
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