I have a very petty mini-rant. <\/p>\n

I’m sick of politicians and pundits using sports euphemisms. Don\u2019t know why it\u2019s a sudden pet peeve. The crowning moment was when, after last night’s debate, Pat Robertson tried to make a boxing analogy, and referred to the \u201cmatch\u201d going 15 rounds.<\/p>\n

Its been about 20 years since boxing matches went 15 rounds. If you\u2019re going to use a sports analogy, get it right.<\/p>\n

See? I told you it was petty.<\/p>\n

Also, everyone needs to stop using \u2018fundamentals\u2019, including Obama. Utilize a thesaurus, people. Its like a plague of repetition. I’m developing a facial tic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have a very petty mini-rant. I’m sick of politicians and pundits using sports euphemisms. Don\u2019t know why it\u2019s a sudden pet peeve. The crowning moment was when, after last night’s debate, Pat Robertson tried to make a boxing analogy, and referred to the \u201cmatch\u201d going 15 rounds. Its been about 20 years since boxing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[109,105],"class_list":["post-1160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-babbling","tag-bitching","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nonomnismoriar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nonomnismoriar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nonomnismoriar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nonomnismoriar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nonomnismoriar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nonomnismoriar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nonomnismoriar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nonomnismoriar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nonomnismoriar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}