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Category Archives: Marketing and Propaganda
Varieties of stepping up
“Hell yeah, I would. No look, you gotta, you gotta step up, man. —Jeb Bush, 9 Nov 2015, in response to the question whether he’d kill Hitler as a baby, if he could Not to be ragging on Jeb Bush, because … Continue reading
Things that would make even Dickens go “hmmm…”
Having just finished Joe Romm’s excellent new book, Language Intelligence: Lessons on Persuasion from Jesus, Shakespeare, Lincoln, and Lady Gaga on the myriad uses of the techniques of rhetoric, I momentarily thought to title this post “Christmas Candy Coal Stocking-Stuffer: … Continue reading
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