FNORD, say it. Think it, whenever you read or hear about another questionable poll or a dodgy interpretation of a Romney 'gaff' by the MSM.
You'll feel better as the smoke is blown away.
Send Drudge a note and ask him to make the word FNORD (with no attribute) the headline for the weekend.
Fnord is a fork, when what you really need is a spoon.
Fnord makes an excellent desert topping.
uh... ‘ten tons of flax’?
I did check the word out, after you wrote it in another post.
I read the works.... trippy
I HAVE SEEN THE FNORDS!
Talkin bout ya!
Is this part of the old Fnord vs. Chevy argument?
RAW had reached the point where he could no longer tolerate dogmatic beliefs, so advanced the cause of cynicism against those of all stripes who foster absolutes on us all.
From the conservative point of view, the bizarre dogmatism of the left is both intensive and extensive. It has long lost its attachment to reality, so tries to force a fantasy on everyone else. The end result is that the left has become something of a UFO suicide cult, a religion that wants to bring about the end of the world. Because “unicorns!”
Fortunately the right is not terribly afflicted with dogmatism, and it only exists in the right in snippets, small subsets that make the majority of the right roll their eyes.
The left however, not facing a dogmatic philosophy, tries to imagine one in the right. Some mythical enemy they can focus on instead of their own shortcomings. This is why they imagine grand conspiracies opposed to their more destructive agenda, instead of what it really is, sensible people telling the leftists that their ideas are stupid.
Yet when dogmatism does crop out on the right, it can be extremely dangerous. Perhaps our most dogmatic leader in recent years was W. Bush, who in short order turned America into a police state, fighting mythical enemies here, when they were almost exclusively on the other side of the world.
What he did will take decades to unravel, mostly because we can no longer afford paranoid delusions at home, at the same time we are still fighting a real enemy, over there.
We don’t need to monitor all Americans 24 hours a day to discover what brand of toilet paper they use, dutifully entered into vast electronic databases. Nor do we need to monitor everyone’s electronic communications, routes of travel, flow of money, etc. ad nauseum.
It achieves nothing and costs a bloody fortune. Which is why we desperately need cynicism to rescue us from such things. We desperately need people to be cynical about government. Cynical about career politicians and bureaucratic Mandarins. Cynical about the spew of the MSM and the lies of corrupt pollsters.
RAW didn’t particularly like W. Bush. He had a point. He likely would have disliked B.H. Obama as well. Different political spectra, but both deserving a lot more cynicism than they got.
Ping....
Forget FNORD, the repubs need to grow a set of FNADS.
oh, the stories I could tell ...