November 30, 2004

The #1 Word of the year...

You are reading one. N.Z. Bear at The Truth Laid Bear reports that Merriam-Webster Inc. has announced that "blog" is the most searched-on word from its sites. N.Z. Bear then goes on with this: bq. The full list is: bq. 1. blog 2. incumbent 3. electoral 4. insurgent 5. hurricane 6. cicada 7. peloton 8. partisan 9. sovereignty 10. defenestration bq. Which, of course, absolutely demands that we rise to the challenge of using all ten words in a sentence. Here's my entry: In 2004, while the vast peloton of the mainstream media peddled furiously onward in an electoral campaign aimed at the defenstration of incumbent President Bush, the insurgent forces of the blog world unleashed a hurricane of criticism on the media itself, plaguing Dan Rather and other liberal talking heads like a swarm of cicadas, slowly but inexorably devouring Big Media's sovereignty as sole arbiters of Truth and exposing them as the partisan hacks we always knew them to be. Heh... Posted by DaveH at November 30, 2004 8:00 PM