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the_dala at 05:38pm on 22/01/2004
the_dala at 05:38pm on 22/01/2004It's the return of the Snarky History Textbook!
While this, my American Government: Balancing Democracy and Rights by Marc Landy and Sidney M. Milkis, is not the same as last year's Snarky History Textbook (which we actually never used), it seems to have its own agenda of snark. Consider this conclusion, from the first-chapter insert on voter turnout in the United States:
"Every citizen has the right to be lazy, apathetic, and politically irresponsible."
*sigh* Oh how I love snarky textbooks. Especially Snarky History Textbooks. They make the student's life so much more interesting.
Ah yes, in Art History today I learned a new word! Ithyphallic: it means erect, in a penile sense. Perhaps it is not the most versatile of words, but I'm certainly glad to know about it. Now I can classify phallic objects and symbols even more concisely.
I wonder if there's a corresponding term that means flaccid, in a penile sense?
While this, my American Government: Balancing Democracy and Rights by Marc Landy and Sidney M. Milkis, is not the same as last year's Snarky History Textbook (which we actually never used), it seems to have its own agenda of snark. Consider this conclusion, from the first-chapter insert on voter turnout in the United States:
"Every citizen has the right to be lazy, apathetic, and politically irresponsible."
*sigh* Oh how I love snarky textbooks. Especially Snarky History Textbooks. They make the student's life so much more interesting.
Ah yes, in Art History today I learned a new word! Ithyphallic: it means erect, in a penile sense. Perhaps it is not the most versatile of words, but I'm certainly glad to know about it. Now I can classify phallic objects and symbols even more concisely.
I wonder if there's a corresponding term that means flaccid, in a penile sense?
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