Today's library trip netted me just $2.20 in fines and two books to add to my pile of Library Books Checked Out but Destined to Remain Unread, Unembedded: Four Independent Photojournalists on the War in Iraq and I Feel Bad About My Neck and Other Thoughts on Being a Woman by Nora Ephron. (Yes, my reading habits are a bit, uh, eclectic--some might even say odd.)
Now that Patriot Day has passed I feel free to abandon the Thumper's Mom Rule in favor of the Dorothy Parker Rule. Tim asked me why I was going to watch Bush's speech last night 'cause he thought it'd just get me worked up, but it didn't do much of anything. What I heard was akin to Charlie Brown's teacher's trombone riff: Whaaa Whaaa Whaaa. More of the same. Did anyone else hear anything new? I mean, really, he couldn't wait a full sentence before he said "September the 11th": They were his sixth, seventh, and eighth words.
Let's look at the words, shall we? Which key word do you think the War President spoke uttered most often? 9/11?
The winner is: TERROR
Here's the breakdown:
- terror/ism/ist......................................................17
- references & allusions to 9/11/2006....................16
- September the 11th (6)
- 9/11 (9)
- a bright September morning (1)
- enemy/enemies....................................................13
- war, attack(s).........................................................9 each
- extremist(s)...........................................................6
- threat(s), Saddam Hussein......................................5
- evil, Osama bin Laden, al Qaeda, violence...............3 each
- radical(ism)............................................................4
- kill, battle, horror (of 9/11)...................................2 each
- murder(ed), death, suffering, blow up...................1 each
- perverted, dictator, regime, tragedy.....................1 each
- ideology (totalitarian/hateful/extremist)..............1 each
- women prisoners, men beaten, repression.............1 each
- weapons of mass destruction, nukular weapons.....1 each
- launch attacks on us, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.....1 each
"FOUL!" you cry. And you're right. This is unscientific and biased, and I left out all the feel-good words. (To be fair to myself, I started counting the feel-goodies as well but grew bored--and I wanted to be slanted.) You want scientific and unbiased with feel-goodisms, put 'em in your own blog.
Cheers for now,
-b
Stay tuned: Tomorrow we make fun of Bush's metaphors.
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