Well, the Tampa Bay Times beat me to it. So I didn’t watch the GOP mock debate, but apparently DeSantis related an unusual story about a 23-week baby aborted in 1955 and left in a bedpan outside that is still alive and an anti-abortion activist. That didn’t seem possible given 1950s neonatal care, save a […]
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Will the Cooked Goose Fly?
Trump is arraigned today on his third indictment, the most serious yet as it deals with Jan. 6. A fourth is to come in Georgia. The trial dates so far are summer 2024, which means he’ll be in court for the bulk of his presidential campaign, assuming he receives the GOP nomination. His goose is […]
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Effect and Rhetoric
The question of how to measure the “effect” of rhetoric is one of the most difficult problems in rhetorical theory. I consider it practically unsolvable. How can you reliably point to a specific instance of speech and connect it to a specific effect? Simple interactions are of no practical difficulty, of course. If I tell […]