[Billthedrill]

The same two got me, too. "Tendentious" I use all the time - one has to when describing the bleatings of the intellectualoids. "Protasis" is the introductory part of a drama or a subordinate clause in a conditional sentence. You could interpret it either way in the context of the bleatings of intellectualoids. "Apodictic" is demonstrably true, a word seldom associated with the bleatings of intellectualoids.

It's all Greek...naw...not gonna go there.

[Verginius Rufus]

In Greek grammar, in conditional sentences, the "protasis" is the "if" clause and the "apodosis" is the "then" clause or conclusion. Buckley is throwing us a curve by using a superficially similar word, apodictic, from the verb meaning to point out or show off...that's because Buckley is a show-off.

[Carry_Okie]

It's all Greek...naw...not gonna go there.

Geek or Greek matters not a whit, cuz dare ain't no dare there.