Comments on: Mighty Morphin Power Brokers

By: ogmb

ogmb — Sat, 22 Oct 2005 07:30:51 +0000

Unscientific poll on the KTVA Anchorage webpage:

Are you for or against the bridges?

For 16 (2%)
Against 688 (98%)

By: Hogan

Hogan — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 14:26:37 +0000

GOP leader aufgehoben—film at 11.

By: dearieme

dearieme — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 08:30:41 +0000

That clash sounds like a cymbal of our times.

By: John Holbo

John Holbo — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 08:15:38 +0000

Still, you would say that – as a device – a medusa’s head is a ‘petrifier’. Yet the effect is petrifaction, not petrification. Am I right? Also, for all I know, becoming a forefront – or did he become a ‘forefront today’, i.e. a particular TYPE of today? – IS a petrochemical process.

Hmmm, just did a googlefight. Petrification beats petrifaction, but not utterly decisively: 127,000 to 72,000. Perhaps, then, transmogrifaction can be an accepted alternate spelling.

By: trotstky

trotstky — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 07:14:52 +0000

Sigh. I don’t think I’ve ever agreed with Sen. Tom Coburn about anything—until today.

By: agm

agm — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 06:36:01 +0000

Definitely transmogrification, since the device is the transmogrifier. The other one sounds too much like a petroleum process.