Fascinate:
Enthusiasm for consolidating
all of society and culture into the hands of Big Government and Big Business—the
tell-tale signs of Mercantilism (aka National Socialism).
Fascindustrialism: Cooperative
monopolization between the public and private sectors; “It’s the economy,
stupid.”
Fauxment:
An artificial controversy;
the stock and trade of TV news.
Fauxpolitiks: The dismal reduction of political
discourse to the trite, the picayune, and the vapid.
Fawnics:
The most basic Washington
posture of political celebrity adulation.
Fetalphobia:
Fear of children—often
resulting in the “Disposable Tissue Syndrome,” or DTS.
Fiburnation: The tactic of double-speak, reversals,
and outright lying from our DC pals and pols.
Fictatation:
Talking back to the TV.
Firmamentalist: Someone gripped by the
modern credulity complex; lost in the Post-Modernist cosmos of bad ideas and
metaphysical monkeyshines.
Fornigate:
The latest in the
never-ending string of Washington scandals.
Fraudian Slip:
A round-about admission of
untruthfulness.
1 comment:
The word "factoid" simply means a bit of trivia. But long ago, I once heard it used in this sense: A situation, crisis, or other set of circumstances which does not exist, except in newsprint. I thought that was rather clever, and often have wished that it had caught on.
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