Sarah Barracuda

what OP-ED columnist Gail Collins called Sarah Palin in The New York Times

Caribou Barbie

This is, what, according to Maureen Dowd in the New York Times, critics call Sarah Palin. In the same article, she also refers to her as “Valentino Barbie” and “Eliza Doolittle“, but stresses that “She [Sarah Palin] is so naturally good-looking, there is no need to gild the Last Frontier lily.”

Palinism

“a philosophy delivered without a passport and with a view (on a clear day) of Russia”, quoted from The New York Times

“From an inspirational notion, however flawed in execution, that has buttressed the global spread of liberty, American exceptionalism has morphed into the fortress of those who see themselves threatened by ‘one-worlders’ (read Barack Obama) and who believe it’s more important to know how to dress moose than find Mumbai.”

ibid.

First Dude

That’s Todd Palin, accourding to the Washington Post.

Corrupticut

Connecticut, as it’s called after recent scandals, cf. New York Times

Streisand effect

self-defeating behaviour or unintended consequences of drawing attention to some unwanted material on the internet by suing

seen in The Economist

What a pile of shit can tell you:

“Fossilised faeces found in a US cave may help solve the riddle of when and how humans came to the Americas.” cf. BBC

I keep wondering if this might even solve the riddle WHY people came to the Americas. And what a remarkable imprint they left!

a human being after all

“Occasionally, I am a human being like everyone else.” – Hillary Clinton on why she “mis-spoke” by claiming to have landed in Tuzla in Bosnia under sniper fire when she hadn’t.

quoted from: The Economist, March 29, 2008, online edition

Now, did she “mis-speak” again, or did she really mean to say that she is human only occasionally?

the right to …

… not only bear arms but to change tv channels at gunpoint, cf. “SAM AMAYA was six years old when he first pulled a gun on another person—his father, who was beating his mother. At eight he would produce the gun when he wanted his sister to change the channel from a soap opera to a cartoon.” [The Economist]

for more on gun control click here

Obamacans

a term coined by Democratic candidate Barack Obama denoting Republicans in favour of him, cf. The Los Angeles Times, “GOP renegades seeking a candidate capable of ending the Washington partisanship are surfacing in the senator’s campaign in surprising numbers. ‘Obamacans,’ he calls them.“