Two examples from Tuesday’s National Review.
…I don’t mind the patter of little keyboards across the country as editorial writers and Democrats type-type-type their demands for Rumsfeld to resign. Like the rain, angry pronouncements fall on the just and the unjust alike.
On Tuesday, Baker will hold a hearing on whether the New York Stock Exchange is necessary nowadays. It’s a good question to ask in this new information-age economy, which is slaying the dinosaur industries of the past the way Cicadas shed their exoskeletons.
Our mj editorial judge awards five points to the former for an excellent Biblical allusion, and deducts ten points from the latter for an overly forced allusion to current natural events.
As a aside, in a Bible study I attended today, the leader referred to what he called “a heinous ball of wax”. Unfortunately, I don’t recall the point he was making, but I did find the phrase remarkably memorable.
