Learn to be alert for doubletalk.  Watch for it, it’s everywhere the word ‘is’ is.  Let your yes mean YES and your no mean NO.

One of the best explanations ever found for the wordiness of some attorneys and judges:

 

In spite of there being absolutely no Constitutional basis for such beliefs. he was worried about the imbalance between the defensiveness and caution on the court’s liberal side and the “bold, clear strokes” issuing from Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas. What the author doesn't seem to grasp at all is that Scalia and Thomas can write in "bold strokes" because they base their opinions on what is actually written in the document. When you have to pretend that you believe that the Constitution actually matters while in fact you believe its language to be an obstacle to "social progress," your language is not going to be as confident. They despise the language of the Constitution but they can't openly say it, so they are forced to call their organization "the American Constitution Society."  They must playact.  They can never, ever say what they mean. That's why they sound unsure of themselves.  The lie, for all its power, always trembles in the face of truth.

8 posted on 07/08/2007 10:56:48 PM PDT by denydenydeny (Expel the priest and you don't inaugurate the age of reason, you get the witch doctor--Paul Johnson)

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