A pardon should be given to correct a miscarriage of justice, not to perpetrate another injustice. A pardon under the law is to make the law more humane, not to unleash the lawless upon the land.
Category: Words Poorly Used
Words Poorly Used, Another Devil’s Dictionary #2
Pardon — a POTUS ploy used to un-catch a caught henchman so that said henchman may hench again. Political Ego — a power more potent than a thousand suns, but which will resist all attempts at harnessing for good until the end of time.
Words Poorly Used #99 — Anarchism
Anarchy is. Whether you believe in it or not is immaterial. Anarchy is. Whether you act to gain it or not is immaterial.
Words Poorly Used #98 — Culture
Throughout the life sciences, “culture” is a flowering, while degradation is a rotting. Why are we using the one word where the other should be?
Words Poorly Used #97 — Market Failure
If you see what looks like a market failure, it is, in fact, the failure of a previously attempted market intervention.
Words Poorly Used #96 — Victims
POTUS, this one and each of the foregoing 44, loves to trot out victims. But, it’s not difficult to find people screwed by government programs. It’s a feature, not a bug.
Words Poorly Used #95 — Obligation
In a recent Socrates Cafe of Louisville, we voted to deliberate the old chestnut, “can there be a just war?” Why we did this, I don’t know. Maybe we hoped this time would be different, wherein we would come up with a no nonsense answer. Foiled again.
Words Poorly Used #94 — Excuses
Why is it that when there is a cop-involved killing that 1000 experts and eyewitnesses, mostly incognito, are everywhere. Cop apologists have a kit bag full of one size fits all excuses.
Words Poorly Used #93 — Legal/Moral
The term “legal” is most often miscarried when it has not been put in the light of a moral origin. This relationship is the first puzzle of humanity.
Words Poorly Used #92 — Weasel Words
What a rich week! The wordsmiths of Sodom-on-the-Potomac have outdone themselves. ‘Potential evidence’ and ‘strategic patience’ debuted just a few days apart, both used in veiled threats of violence.