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Mon, 29 Jan 2007

More meat for the meme morgue

From the “The 100% of the Usage Panel recommends that this phrase be taken out and shot” department:

“mommy wars”

When Drudge picks up an AP story about the thirty-something full-time mother of four who lobs a fragmentation grenade from the cockpit of her kid-filled Lincoln Navigator through the open top of her high-powered-childfree-consultant (and Yale classmate)’s BMW M3 while they sit stranded in traffic on I-80, then, and only then, will I feel comfortable with the phrase.

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Mon, 22 Jan 2007

Dead horses that should be retired. With prejudice.

“Battle of the sexes”

(This one’s so bad that it pains me to write it.)

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Thu, 14 Dec 2006

More words that should not be used together. Ever.

“scary smart”

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