So I'm sitting in my office watching Ken Burns' "Dust Bowl" and my eighth-grader comes in and she asks if she may use my computer to complete a writing assignment and I say Sure and she starts the creative project which has a word-count requirement and she's typing and typing some more and eventually she seems to be demonstrating more frustration than thought and I ask What's the matter and she says she's coming up horrifically short on the word count and I say embellish it and she says she's already embellished it by repeating herself and finally she says with no little excruciation, If I say the same thing one more time I'm going to sound like Rachel Maddow.
Some lessons do get through.
Yeah, but, tonight, after an excessively long lead-in concerning the vacuum in Republican foreign policy experience, Rachel had an excellent segment excoriating John McCain for his bellicose excesses on foreign policy over the past 20+ years!
Posted by: Ansel M. | November 19, 2012 at 09:46 PM
I like Rachel. I really do, but sometimes I feel like I am in a lecture hall with her. You want to scream "Get to the point!" (Actually my husband has on occasion). And, I agree with your daughter. Smart kid.
Posted by: Joy | November 20, 2012 at 08:23 AM
Oh, she gets to the point soon enough. Then points, a lot more.
Posted by: BobB | November 20, 2012 at 08:59 AM
Don't expect Rachel to change though. Don't know if you've noticed but Chris Rock has had a great career based on saying everything twice.
Posted by: Peter G | November 20, 2012 at 09:16 AM
Well Rachel has an hour to fill so maybe she, too, has a word count.
Posted by: sueme | November 20, 2012 at 10:51 AM