Mitt Romney

Aintsobad May Be So Bad or, Caricature, Category Failure, and Selective Dissent

If ever there was a Texan who characterized the maxim, “You can tell a Texan, but you can’t tell them much,” it just might be Rick Davis, a.k.a. Aintsobad. I read where he was thinking in the shower. Is it possible that soap in one’s eyes affects … Continue reading

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It’s the Economy or, A Piratic Snowclone to Challenge the Church

I love neologisms. Reading up on the origins of the phrase, “It’s the economy, stupid,” I ran across a reference to snowclones. It occurred to me that this phrase could be used to describe how the phrase could function to alert us to the subtle way the economy Continue reading

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