Tag: rhetoric

• Length and Strength

  April 25th, 2008

  If you’ll indulge me, I’m going to try something. I’ll present the same argument three different ways. I hope that by the end, you’ll understand why. First The length of an argument is directly proportional to its strength. Second Generally, the length of an argument is proportional to it’s strength. Barring excessively and pointlessly wordy…

• Review: Obama’s SC Victory Speech

  January 28th, 2008

  In my younger years, I was given some advice that I’ve always taken quite seriously: Never have any heroes who remain above ground. And though that may sound like a claim that a person should only make heroes of sewer rats, subway conductors, and water sanitation engineers; it’s not. Depending on who you ask, it…