"I read pessimissimistic as meaning very, very pessimistic, just as fortissimissimo means very, very loud."

That was my reading too. But it also reminded me of a kid quote: "I know how to spell 'banana', but I don't know when to stop."

Posted at August 20, 2005 12:51 PM in response to A Hell of a Parenthesis

It's hard to take seriously a posting that invokes an undefined "radical left" in practically every paragraph, with a single on-the-one-hand mention of the radical right. The Democratic party in danger of domination by the "radical left"? I should live to see the day.

Posted at August 5, 2005 5:57 PM in response to A Democratic National Security Strategy