Thursday, October 02, 2008

Poets Save the Economy, and Sarah Palin's Words to Nowhere


Couldn't resist reading this piece in The Onion, NEA Funds Construction of $1.3 Billion Poem. I think this is the best use of federal funds that I've heard in weeks, don't you?
Are we having fun yet? EVERYONE who loves to play with language, and especially those nutty folks who love to study language is having a blast with Republican Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin. In Slate magazine, Hart Seeley examines the Poetry in the Governor's words, while Kitty Burns Florey (which I think may be a pseudonym for my 6th Grade English Teacher) makes a noble attempt to Diagram Sarah Palin's sentences. Enjoy!