Los Idiotismos del Chipo de Silicio
Hablaba de prisa. Hablaba sin oír ni ver ni hablar.
Hablaba como el que huye, emboscado de pronto entre falsas follajes de simpatía e irrealidad.
Apocalypse, Fat Lady of the: apparently not Madeleine Albright
Blimp, J. Diocletian: JHM (when being even more so than usual)
Chipo de Silicio, El: JHM (qua low-end software perp)
Civistan, Western: where intellectuals once thought in Latin (30 Jan 395 - 25 Dec 1991)
Clashism: the Huntingtonian abomination of desolation
Demoncrat: a friend of Bill
e-cronym: BTW, IMHO, ROTFL et hoc genus omne
FFBB: "faith and family, blood and belief" (Samuel Huntington)
Gus, Gloomy: Augustinus episcopus Hipponensis, godfather of Western Civistan (q.v.)
HIMSELF: Dr. Rush Limbaugh (unless different sense clear from context)
Impeachmentgate: Mr. Newt's legacy
internettoyage: WWW censorship (cf. Fr. nettoyage ethnique)
Islamintern: the Crescent Fundamentalist Menace
IWHHA: e-cronym "It Would Have Happened Anyway" (sc. in the Balkans)
limbawdry: radio performances by HIMSELF (q.v.)
Luna Post: the Washington Times
MEOW: "moral equivalent of war" (Wm. James)
narcocrator: drug tsar; spec. Ayatollah William Bennett
Natoholic: a New Interventionist (esp. in the Balkans)
Natostan: Western Civistan (q.v.) since 25 Dec 1991
Nitsy, Aunt: NYTC, the New York Times Company
OAF: e-cronym 'Operation "Allied Force"' (del ingenioso Señor Gary Cruse)
postwhateverism: postmodernism, PoMo, poststructuralism, cultural criticism; lunacy, depravity
Rear Colonel: unmilitary rank peculiar to Cyril Connolly and JHM
S.E.C.S.: Socialist Endowment for Clinton Studies
socialism, civil: the highest stage of neo-reaction
-stan: suffix implying parochialism, as Bantustan
Surfistan: New Hampshire, home of the loons
vrook: member of the VRWC; right wingnut; neo-reactionary
VRWC: Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy (de Señora Rodham y Clinton)
WAASP: e-cronym "We Are A Superior Power" (del vrook Sen. McCain)
WWWonderland: circumspice!
Zeitblom, Serenus: narrator of Mann's Doktor Faustus; JHM at S.E.C.S. (q.v.)
The death of outrage is the beginning of wisdom.
Get those kids out of the trenchcoats and into the trenches!
Ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem (Massachusetts state motto)
... determined to live each day as if it were his first ... (of Descartes & Jimmy Carter)
(regress)
(egress)