Archive for the ‘slogans’ tag
Our Worst Critics Prefer to Stay #
Under the category of “old stories that are legitimate to talk about because someone else also missed them the first time,” the Freakonomic blog held a contest for the six-word slogan for the United States of America. The winner? That title above. Runners up included:
Caution! Experiment in Progress Since 1776 (134)
The Most Gentle Empire So Far (64) votes
You Should See the Other Guy (38)
Just Like Canada, With Better Bacon (18)
(via Neatorama)
The Problem with Politics #
Though I think Mr. Hitchen’s remarks aren’t much truer today than they are at any time during any campaign, I am tempted to agree with this point:
It is cliché, not plagiarism, that is the problem with our stilted, room-temperature political discourse. It used to be that thinking people would say, with at least a shred of pride, that their own convictions would not shrink to fit on a label or on a bumper sticker. But now it seems that the more vapid and vacuous the logo, the more charm (or should that be “charisma”?) it exerts.