Weekend Wordery/Birdery: Ornithology Metaphors
April 10, 2010
Since I did non-weekend birdery this week, it’s a good time for a double whammy weekend birdery and wordery post.
Somebody else’s post, that is. Neil Sinhababu (a month ago, but so what?) wonders if the hawks and doves trope hasn’t gone too far. Maybe so, but I welcome the introduction of the term “peacock” into the political taxonomy. Deficit peacocks, for instance, are those politicos who make ostentatious displays of being aggressive critics of the country’s budget deficit but whose policy stances are basically indistinguishable from those of ordinary partisan hacks. In other words, they’re all show.
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