Wisdom in SpaceIs sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.
-- William Safire
"A senior United States official" is a political appointee over 30. "A senior agency employee" is a midlevel careerocrat looking out a Langley window and dreaming about a book contract. No confidential informant is ever identified as "junior," which would impugn the status of the source.
-- William Safire
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50+ Music"The Frim-Fram Sauce" is a #jazz song written by #ReddEvans and Joe Ricardel. In 2002, journalist #WilliamSafire said frim-fram sauce was a variant of flim-flam or deceit and "ussin-fay" was #pigLatin for "fussing", meaning "playing about fretfully". Safire quoted singer #DianaKrall on the meaning of "shafafa": "'It's all about sex,' she replied innocently." The song was made famous by #TheKingColeTrio whose recording on October 11, 1945 (Capitol 224).
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Frim Fram Sauce (Remastered)
"A senior United States official" is a political appointee over 30. "A senior agency employee" is a midlevel careerocrat looking out a Langley window and dreaming about a book contract. No confidential informant is ever identified as "junior," which would impugn the status of the source.
-- William Safire
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⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #PuebloBonito #Ruins #NewMexico
Stan CareyPlural complications in The Onion: Dispatches from the Tenth Circle
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Wisdom in SpaceIs sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.
-- William Safire
Marcus ReynoldsThe right to do something does not mean that doing it is right.
#WilliamSafire (1929 — 2009) #ReadersDigest, March 1988