Right now, Fred "I'm Acting as Bad as I Can" Thompson is speaking. He's cleared his throat about 45 times in the first few minutes of his speech. Nauseating.

This really should've been Charles' post, since for once, the etymology is actually connected to the industrial revolution which takes you right to MArx, and globalization. For once!

It'd quibble that the defining characteristic is "sturdiness" -- huh? --here did you make that up from ?
And reusability? Methinks the concept fungibility or standardization of the large flat pieces which can be used to build any boiler. (Note: this concept is in fact what underlies industrial manufacture.)

So when the large pieces of standardized verbiage actually looked like the boilerplates used to make boilers, there was a double dual meaning (large flat pices, both interchangeable in their respective fields).

Hopefully this discussion will lead to a fully standardized definition of boilerplate. We can't be making up artisanal definitions, one by one, with minor variations, you know.

Libs Get Rove All Wrong

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIVFraQwm3c&eurl=http://www.dailykos.com/

The crowd (which couldn't have been more than 2,000) marched to the Xcel Center, where they briefly toyed with the idea of climbing over the barricades.

"Soldier, I come in peace!" a middle-aged lady warbled. "I'm going to climb up there!" Police, wearing gas masks, shook their heads and pulled out canisters of pepper spray. The lady didn't climb over and most everybody left.

Then turned on the daily show and everything was ok again. Like an oasis of fact in a sea of ignorance.

Pepper spraying an old lady for practicing peaceful assembly as guaranteed by the Bill of Rights (well, at least guaranteed to those who are actually Right)?

Yes, it's a rhetorical question. And no, Joe, your argument for politically switch-hitting just - so blows.

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While I've heard the origins of boilerplate before, I'd never seen that thorough of a analysis. Spot on for posting it.

It's like every speech at this convention was written by the same person. I mean, I understand they all got similar talking points, but this shit is ridiculous.