Synecdoche
Noun
Late Middle English, 1350s
A figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa.
Example: My full name is Jorge Lazaro Alejandro De La Garza, but I often go by the synecdoche of “Chief Writing Wolf”.
Monthly Archives: May 2021
Podcast of the Week – May 15, 2021
Recently the State of Texas passed a bill that was disguised as a voting integrity measure, but in reality, puts more restrictions on the voting process. In a podcast interview with Jon Favreau, former U.S. Congressman Beto O’Rourke (who challenged Sen. Ted Cruz in 2018) discussed the Texas bill and its adverse effects on voting.
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Most Hysterical Quote of the Week – May 15, 2021
“You don’t care about the American people! Why do you support terrorists and antifa?”
Rep. Marjorie Taylor-Greene, to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
According to two Washington Post reporters, Ocasio-Cortez was headed towards an exit in the Capital building when Taylor-Greene shouted “Hey, Alexandria!” twice and proceeded to follow the New York congresswoman.
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Worst Quotes of the Week – May 15, 2021
“We’re not talking about eight-year-olds’ soccer. We’re talking about post-puberty sports. We’re talking about girls who’ve worked their whole lives to earn a scholarship and not have to worry about being outplayed by a boy.”
Rep. Lauren Boebert, about the proposed Equality Act, which would ban discrimination based on gender and gender identity
Boebert also claimed the bill would lead to “women getting in an MMA ring and having their skulls crushed by a man,” among other things.
“Let’s be honest with the American people – it was not an insurrection, and we cannot call it that and be truthful.”
Rep. Andrew Clyde (R – GA), on the January 6 Capital Hill riots
A gun dealer in his first term in Congress, Clyde compared the riots to a “normal tourist visit”.
“It was Trump supporters who lost their lives that day, not Trump supporters who were taking the lives of others.”
Rep. Jody Hice (R-GA), presenting his version of the January 6 riots
Painting the rioters as victims, Hice noted that four of them died, including Ashli Babbitt who was fatally shot. The other three suffered medical emergencies while part of the crowd laying siege to the Capitol. Another victim is Capitol Hill police officer Brian Sicknick.
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Best Quotes of the Week – May 15, 2021
“I’m not a politician. I’m not an elected official. I don’t expect anybody to give two shits about my opinions. But I will say this, you know, those are lies.”
Michael Fanone, Capital Hill police officer who was stun-gunned several times and beaten with a flagpole during the attack, about the January 6 riots and denials by some Republicans on the severity of the event
Fanone, who said he suffered a concussion and a heart attack during the violence, added, “Peddling that bullshit is an assault on every officer that fought to defend the Capitol. It’s disgraceful.”
“Right now it’s basically the Titanic. We’re … in the middle of this slow sink. We have a band playing on the deck telling everybody it’s fine. And, meanwhile, Donald Trump’s running around trying to find women’s clothing and get on the first lifeboat.”
Rep. Adam Kinzinger, criticizing his fellow Republicans for their ongoing allegiance to former Pres. Trump
“We are up currently against the ticking time bomb of an unrelenting climate crisis and an economic crisis wearing down working people. Each day the process of passing an infrastructure package is delayed by performative negotiations with the GOP – who are clearly disinterested in working with Democrats – another day goes by that we are not healing our planet or getting people good jobs to support their families.”
Ellen Sciales, press secretary for Sunrise Movement, on the apparent unwillingness of Republicans to work with President Biden on his infrastructure bill proposal
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The Day My Mother Told Me I Almost Wasn’t Born
Mother’s Day 2021
Happy Mother’s Day to all the mothers here in the U.S. and, of course, around the world! This is the first Mother’s Day in which my own mother is not here. Next month will mark one year since her passing. I wanted to repost this story I wrote for my blog several years ago. It put life in perspective for me – then as now.
“I almost lost you before you were born – twice.” How do you respond to something like that from your own mother? Especially when you’re only 9 or 10 years old? I don’t recall what started the conversation. My parents never held back when it came to subjects like babies and sex. I don’t know what brought us into that discussion, but my parents were incredibly forthright about such things. They figured I should find out from them, rather than from kids at school, television, or anywhere else. I certainly wouldn’t learn the truth about babies and sex from the Catholic parochial school I attended in the 1970s. Deep down inside the Catholic hierarchy knows that sex is pretty much how humans have reproduced for millennia, but openly hates it.
Once, when I was about 10 or 11, I asked my parents what happened in X-rated movies, and they told…
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Retro Quote – Jalal al-Din Rumi
“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.”
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Word of the Week – May 1, 2021
Irrefragable
Adjective
Latin, 16th century
Not able to be refuted or disproved; indisputable.
Example: It’s irrefragable that conservative trickle-down economics is not economically productive.
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