I am not familiar with this term: Morton’s Fork
“A situation involving choice between two equally undesirable outcomes
“ETYMOLOGY: After John Morton (c. 1420-1500), archbishop of Canterbury, who was tax collector for the English King Henry VII. To him is attributed Morton’s fork, a neat argument for collecting taxes from everyone: those living in luxury obviously had money to spare and those living frugally must have accumulated savings to be able to pay.” (via Wordsmith.org)
Chris Pash reports the phrase at the end of the day “is the most popular cliche in journalism globally. It is all-pervasive.” Headline writers also love “Man Bites Dog” in some fashion. For example:
In the spirit of this award, I proudly claim the honor of Best Blog by a Heretic as voted on my the reader of The Crescat blog. That’s “heretic” as defined by Roman Catholics (some of them anyway). Get the run down here. As Luther might have said on an occasion like this, “This fear or horror is sufficient in itself [when reading this blog] to constitute the pain of purgatory, since it approaches very closely to the horror of despair.”
Do we aim to please? We sure do. Thank you to everyone for your wonderful outpouring of support for the unsung heroes write this blog. At the end of the day, it’s all about you.
Perhaps it wouldn’t be a bad idea to press candidates for high U.S. courts on their opinions of most of the amendments and clauses in the Constitution. Elena Kagan favors censorship, no doubt of only those ideas she disapproves. What other unconstitutional ideas does she support?
It’s May, friends. The vikings are in season.
I’ve begun to microblog and tweet here. I’m already cranky.
Hunter Baker gives the full details behind his interview with Harvard Political Review. “Somewhat to my chagrin,” he says, “it is primarily about how great secularism is with a couple of statements by me and Herb London, president of the Hudson Institute, suggesting the self-congratulation is not warranted.”
Rachel Deahl of PW writes about who is influential on Twitter. She notes, “One firm fact of the publishing Twittersphere is that it’s a meritocracy. CEOs and editorial assistants—if they’re skilled (and frequent) tweeters—can draw equal crowds.”
Rados, who was named repeatedly as someone who ‘gets’ Twitter, said she believes the social networking site can sell books. ‘An author can tweet about their life, their process, start a conversation about their characters, and those readers who feel a connection will most likely buy a book. I know I do,’ she said. Rados then elaborated with an example, pointing to Jen Lancaster, author of My Fair Lazy, who she follows. The day Lancaster’s new book came out, Rados said she bought it, in hardback.
I’d think blogs can do that too, but one does have to be where the people are. I’ve thought about tweeting a bit, microblogging as it were. I’m not sure it’s for me though. I don’t even have a smart phone or a personal laptop, so why should I try to get involved in the Twitterverse?
On Monday, May 17th (at 9:30pm EST), T. M. Moore and Jimmy Davis will interview Dr. Larry Crabb live on the Worldview Network internet radio program.
Ask not what you believe to be, but only what if. Tim Challies has a humorous list of quotes, asking us to decide whether they came from fortune cookies or Joel Osteen, the beloved author of Your Best Life Now and It’s Your Time For example, where does this statement come from: “Do all you can to make your dreams come true”?