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41 simplest explanation 41 excuse 41 colloquial expression 41 truisms 40 domino theory 40 oxymoron 40 epithet 40 warped logic 40 phrase coined 40 dichotomy 40 trope 40 epigram 40 corollary 40 oldest adages 40 conventional wisdom 40 false equivalence 40 phraseology 40 motif 40 metaphorical 40 Yogi ism 40 logical inference 40 illogic 40 Pythagorean Theorem 40 perverse logic 40 inductive logic 40 parlor trick 40 reference 39 rationale 39 idiom 39 hypothetical 39 explanation 39 suggestion 39 rough approximation 39 tautology 39 plural pronouns 39 apologia 39 twisted logic 39 drawing parallels 39 likening 39 hackneyed phrase 39 Pascal Wager 39 word advisedly 39 overused phrase 39 analogize 39 comparing 39 assertion 39 abstract noun 39 oddity 39 anachronism 39 implication 39 instance 39 FMNN REPLY 39 moral equivalency 38 logical fallacy 38 simplistic 38 analogizes 38 retort 38 analogized 38 lesson 38 sweeping generalization 38 statistical probabilities 38 comparisons 38 scenario 38 perspective 38 concept 38 Jeff Foxworthy joke 38 gerund 38 historical precedents 38 generalization 38 mnemonic device 38 context 38 paraphrasing 38 Metaphorically 38 factoid 38 specious argument 38 eerie similarity 38 willful delusion 38 reductio ad 38 similarity 38 tactic 38 dictionary definition 38 Hyperbole aside 38 pretzel logic 38 arguer 38 Pythagorean theorem 38 reductio ad absurdum 38 Pythagoras theorem 37 singular verb 37 hypothetically 37 arguement 37 myth 37 Paraphrasing 37 clichŽ 37 false dichotomy 37 nomenclature 37 imitation 37 viewpoint 37 fuzzy math 37 post hoc ergo 37 etymology 37 similitude 37 deductive logic 37 neo Darwinian 37 archetype 37 mathematical equation 37 suppose 37 nutshell 37 synonym 37 antecedent 37 Chinese proverb 37 similes 37 To paraphrase 37 hackneyed cliché 37 examples 37 determinist 37 overused cliché 37 apocryphal 37 hoary cliche 37 UR Contra 37 descriptive phrase 37 non sequitor 37 yardstick 37 rhetorical overkill 37 Zen koan 37 Clausewitzian 37 elitist snob 37 ad hominem fallacy 37 terminology 37 plural pronoun 37 anthropic principle 37 similarities 37 fable 36 Cloward Piven strategy 36 anthropomorphism 36 approximation 36 singular noun 36 Euclidian geometry 36 Greg Mankiw 36 moral equivalencies 36 thing 36 phallic symbol 36 grossly oversimplified 36 prepositional phrase 36 oft quoted 36 prediction 36 perjorative 36 oversimplified 36 global weirding 36 generalizations 36 inference 36 premise 36 comparing apples 36 jargony 36 famous aphorism 36 disquisition 36 conceit 36 eternal verity 36 digression 36 parlance 36 passive homebound nurturers 36 fallacious argument 36 inferences 36 hobbyhorse 36 dictionary definitions 36 lame excuse 36 uncanny similarity 36 mathematical formula 36 absurdity 36 rephrases 36 epigraph 36 likened 36 overly simplistic 36 redux 36 method 36 pea brains 36 Aesop fable 36 tu quoque 36 oxymoronic 36 connotation 36 I'ma traditionalist 36 apocryphal tale 36 moral repugnance 36 apocryphally 36 vino veritas 36 idiomatic expression 36 philosopher Yogi Berra 36 referrence 36 felicitous phrase 36 sonofabitch 36 misquote 36 generalizes 36 verbing 36 platitude 36 distinction 36 teachable moment 36 adages 36 extrapolation 36 possibly apocryphal 35 rationales 35 possessive pronoun 35 summation 35 Henri Bergson 35 irony 35 clichs 35 overused cliche 35 moralizer 35 armchair psychologists 35 primer 35 Philosophical Investigations 35 Hegelian Dialectic 35 CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER SYNDICATED COLUMNIST 35 inapposite 35 Broken Window Fallacy 35 meme 35 favorite sayings 35 Ralph Raico 35 non sequitur 35 logical conclusion 35 akin 35 myth buster 35 MacCambridge 35 counterintuitive 35 Hmm. 35 Revisionist history 35 revisionist historians 35 theoretical underpinning 35 incommensurability 35 syllogisms 35 hypothesis 35 advisedly 35 counterexamples 35 playwright Aeschylus 35 template 35 cockney slang 35 witticism 35 apologists 35 proposition 35 critique 35 noun 35 MW Guzy 35 Newtonian mechanics 35 propter hoc 35 verbal tic 35 oxymorons 35 lingo 35 laymen terms 35 psychoanalytic theories 35 Jaw jaw 35 alliterative phrase 35 essentialist 35 worlds colliding 35 theories 35 overused 35 hermeneutical 35 parallelisms 35 conflation 35 words 35 verb 35 somewhere inbetween 35 disjointed patchwork 35 stereotype 35 perniciousness 35 misnomer 35 inexact science 35 utilitarians 35 semantics 35 diagram 35 conundrum 35 unbiased observer 35 portmanteau word 35 Occam razor 35 Historical analogies 35 persuasively argued 35 eerie similarities 35 preposition 35 racist epithet 35 idiot 35 rhetorical sleight 35 wee wee'd 35 purely utilitarian 35 unbridgeable chasm 35 someways 35 ineloquent 35 euphemism 35 adjectives 35 clichÈ 35 dryly 35 Gaia hypothesis 35 counter intuitive 35 unanswerable question 35 Planned obsolescence 35 reductionistic 35 Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle 35 reductionist 35 interjection 35 fallacious arguments 35 deductive reasoning 35 cogent argument 35 neo Keynesian 35 semantical 35 iconography 35 nexis 35 olden days 35 inexorable logic 35 thunderingly 35 defies commonsense 35 postulate 35 PESCA 35 Munchau 35 allusions 35 likens 35 Chianca 34 piker 34 hyperbole 34 Well duh 34 hasty generalization 34 apposite 34 wryly 34 Cotsonika 34 word niggardly 34 dumb hick 34 strawman 34 trite 34 simplistic notions 34 le mot juste 34 Freudian slip 34 dualism 34 Dr Strangelove 34 unfunny joke 34 theorem 34 absurd 34 Cariann Higginbotham 34 flippantly 34 oft repeated maxim 34 Ninth Commandment 34 I'ma purist 34 trilemma 34 adverb 34 statistic 34 Akerlof 34 Scientism 34 bon mot 34 Simple Stupid 34 precedents 34 justification 34 schoolyard taunt 34 connotations 34 apt description 34 anthropic 34 von Clausewitz 34 bogyman 34 unpardonably 34 superlative adjectives 34 utilitarian calculus 34 sa 34 putdown 34 subjunctive mood 34 Likening 34 Pansy Bedwetter 34 malapropism 34 postscript 34 odd juxtaposition 34 specious reasoning 34 borking 34 Rhetorically 34 Salem witch hunts 34 hi falutin 34 extrapolations 34 homo economicus 34 mythology 34 multiverse theory 34 underhanded tactic 34 moral relativist 34 article 34 intrinsically immoral 34 conclusions 34 damned fool 34 counterfactuals 34 cautionary tale 34 medieval blood libels 34 Bob Somerby 34 thirsty crow 34 epitaph 34 maxims 34 ad hominen 34 metaphoric 34 observation 34 comically exaggerate 34 ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny 34 nut shell 34 seeming incongruity 34 Nazi analogies 34 simplistically 34 karmic retribution 34 slender reed 34 starkest contrast 34 mixing metaphors 34 Venn diagram 34 instructive 34 Isn t 34 ironies 34 bastardizes 34 vernacular 34 incongruity 34 thinking 34 ALAN DERSHOWITZ 34 Sports Illustrated Joe Posnanski 34 o nomics 34 metonymy 34 theories propounded 34 snide remark 34 famously remarked 34 nonsequitur 34 yes sir Mendell 34 cliches 34 ed.z. 34 subtle distinctions 34 Hmm 34 Monty Python skit 34 mere utterance 34 phenomenon 34 delicious ironies 34 explication 34 dimmest bulb 34 equation 34 clich 34 fool errand 34 logicians 34 rephrase 34 paradigm 34 Islamic eschatology 34 wishfulness 34 rugged outdoorsman 34 voodoo economics 34 flapdoodle 34 rhyming slang 34 Post hoc ergo 34 participle 34 patently ridiculous 34 Kilroy Was 34 Boolean algebra 34 JAGOW 34 Ockham razor 34 Flip flopping 34 FROM TPP 34 approach 34 straw 34 baddest ass 34 amusing anecdote 34 catchphrase 34 pithy phrase 33 philosophy 33 axiomatically 33 anti Semitic slur 33 superstitious nonsense 33 admonition 33 colloquial phrase 33 philosopher Heraclitus 33 myopic viewpoint 33 O'REILLY OK 33 theorizing 33 clichés 33 methodological naturalism 33 Freudian psychology 33 cultural relativist 33 Gregg Easterbrook 33 Daniel Henninger 33 Telestrator 33 casuistry 33 reasonings 33 shorthand 33 truthy 33 Tabarrok 33 PALCA 33 collective nouns 33 tropes 33 biographer Robert Skidelsky 33 economist Ludwig von 33 misremembered 33 hyperbolic discounting 33 layman terms 33 crackpot theory 33 nauseum 33 sordidly 33 Oh noes 33 dangling modifier 33 infelicitous 33 Lo bama instead 33 koan 33 Orwellian newspeak 33 Fogged in. 33 psychologist BF Skinner 33 knee slapper 33 insinuation 33 Prisoners Dilemma 33 Henry Hazlitt 33 Socratic method 33 Ooops sorry 33 biblical allusions 33 folly 33 dialectics 33 testable hypothesis 33 literary allusion 33 assumption 33 symmetry 33 Krauthammer 33 descriptor 33 rope dope strategy 33 journalistically irresponsible 33 chiasmus 33 Persian proverb 33 probabilistic reasoning 33 oft cited 33 uhh 33 gist 33 pejorative 33 Baudrillard 33 paraphrases 33 phallic imagery 33 critic Chuck Klosterman 33 blithering idiot 33 Freudian slips 33 unsimilar 33 Devilstower 33 persuasive argument 33 scape goat 33 Manichean struggle 33 mantra 33 tautological 33 Surowiecki 33 diatribe 33 guess 33 Hmmm 33 NORMAN FINKELSTEIN 33 overgeneralization 33 correlation 33 Whoda thunk 33 cogent explanation 33 gobbledy gook 33 handwaving 33 Mr. FALLOWS 33 relevence 33 idiomatic phrase 33 arrant nonsense 33 etymologists 33 Zardoz 33 exaggeration 33 reflexivity 33 conceptualizations 33 risibly 33 apologist 33 Cilizza 33 Ben Hur proportions 33 sophism 33 humanitarian interventionism 33 misquotation 33 empiricist 33 conspiracy theory 33 mathematical formalism 33 muck raker 33 simple declarative sentences 33 relativist 33 wave particle duality 33 Intelligent Designer 33 Deus ex machina 33 Drawing parallels 33 flowery adjectives 33 overused clichés 33 Rauchway 33 MMfA 33 philosophized 33 sola scriptura 33 TOM OLIPHANT 33 oogedy boogedy 33 pejorative connotation 33 homophones 33 fallacious reasoning 33 structuralist 33 spade shovel 33 Homo Politicus 33 tenet 33 admirable candor 33 consequentialist 33 depiction 33 unwitting dupe 33 RICHARD SEDDON Yes 33 macroscopic objects 33 nitwit 33 canard 33 reflexively 33 incorrectly characterizing 33 archetypal 33 pompous blowhard 33 hopelessly naive 33 logically 33 Mobius strip 33 allegorically 33 Splitting hairs 33 Adrian Dobs 33 cogito 33 broad generalization 33 Every schoolchild 33 Bi partisanship 33 presupposition 33 Jacques Barzun 33 word shoah 33 magical incantations 33 Clausewitz 33 Latvians deported 33 nuttery 33 meaningless drivel 33 conceptual framework 33 mathematical wizardry 33 tautologies 33 Hubbert curve 33 caricature 33 operant conditioning 33 Ehhhh 33 principle 33 Heisenberg principle 33 immitation 33 Comparisons 33 conclusion 33 FLATOW 33 uninvent 33 Evolutionary psychologists 33 uncharitably 33 onomatopoeia 33 philosopher Theodor Adorno 33 hindsight 33 definitions 33 lexicon 33 econometric model 33 Monetarists 33 Seinfeld episode 33 earth shattering revelation 33 frackin 33 Cui bono 33 hyperbolized 33 typology 33 Quantum mechanics 33 biblical proverb 33 inductive reasoning 33 guy'sa 33 imaginary 32 lessons 32 Mlodinow 32 old fashioned 32 mot juste 32 sheer silliness 32 Rube Goldberg contraption 32 objective correlative 32 snidely 32 backhanded compliment 32 genesis 32 happenstances 32 chappie 32 dialectic 32 antonym 32 verbs nouns 32 accusative 32 circumlocutions 32 famously quipped 32 externality 32 retrospect 32 sweeping generalizations 32 tad melodramatic 32 euphemize 32 explanations 32 precedent 32 basic tenets 32 William Saletan 32 technique 32 uncanny parallels 32 subprime Glowka 32 wry observation 32 journalistic shorthand 32 instinct 32 offhand remark 32 Questioner 32 prognostication 32 unluckiness 32 strategery 32 Kremlinology 32 absurdum 32 relative insignificance 32 supposition 32 CALLER Okay 32 Jules Verne sci fi 32 Mercator projection 32 linkage 32 Er um 32 notions 32 incompetent boob 32 freakonomics 32 Lewontin 32 Steven Landsburg 32 ironic 32 pattern 32 axiomatic 32 calculation 32 biblical allusion 32 joke Skrenta 32 Martin Niemöller 32 reductio 32 Imitating 32 contradiction 32 declarative sentence 32 pluperfect 32 Reasonable minds 32 Generalizing 32 abbreviation 32 argumentum ad hominem 32 scare tactic 32 HORROW 32 mathematical theorem 32 ditty 32 winded explanations 32 Slate Jacob Weisberg 32 doth protest 32 Laughing. 32 deliberately obtuse 32 word 32 implicit assumption 32 quipped 32 denotation 32 guesstimation 32 envelope calculation 32 spectator sport 32 self deprecating remark 32 magic negro 32 willful misinterpretation 32 econometric models 32 parallel 32 rant 32 précis 32 terse reply 32 ingrained habit 32 Sounded 32 diddly poo 32 Non sequitur 32 split infinitive 32 Arnold Kling 32 Reinhold Niebuhr 32 pejoratives 32 luddite 32 pre emption doctrine 32 Von Clausewitz 32 infer 32 soundbyte 32 Conceptually 32 Try googling 32 Abner Doubleday invented 32 approvingly quotes 32 moral intuitions 32 Where'sa 32 demythologizing 32 mythmaking 32 mumbo jumbo 32 geometric angles 32 polysyllabic words 32 interesting sidenote 32 Caveat emptor 32 RUSH Yeah 32 invidious comparisons 32 negative connotations 32 assumptive 32 symbolism 32 Beckian 32 Phooey 32 eerie parallels 32 Irreducible complexity 32 coinages 32 Melville Moby Dick 32 enviro wackos 32 folksy metaphor 32 CHETRY 32 revisionism 32 Aristotelian logic 32 excrescence 32 Doug Mataconis 32 inkblot test 32 mangled syntax 32 determinists 32 Domino Theory 32 sense 32 measuring stick 32 Jacques Lacan 32 cui bono 32 unintended irony 32 Homo economicus 32 Procrustean bed 32 o matic 32 declinist 32 pissing contest 32 noun adjective 32 invented 32 behaviorism 32 Lame lame 32 explainer 32 nostrum 32 references 32 description 32 chancy proposition 32 RUSH Well 32 how IBISWorld defines 32 Finders keepers losers weepers 32 fisk 32 Isnâ € ™ 32 mathematical notation 32 oversimplifies 32 heliocentric universe 32 thumbnail sketch 32 Pettitte Admits 32 resembles 32 mythmakers 32 misplaced modifier 32 CliffsNotes version 32 interesting sidelight 32 soundbite 32 pithy quote 32 intracacies 32 sadly misinformed 32 shibboleth 32 sarcastic retort 32 ludicrousness 32 pullyu 32 abomination 32 intransitive verb 32 ahistorical 32 quaint relic 32 quadratic formula 32 statistical Sabermetric approach 32 extrapolate 32 dialectic materialism 32 paraphrased 32 bacterial flagellum 32 disparaging remark 32 synonyms 32 philosopher Plato 32 euphemisms 32 pun 32 conditioned reflex 32 Gödel 32 storying 32 escape hatch 32 cogent arguments 32 facination 32 is 32 kinda fishy 32 unspoken corollary 32 armchair critic 32 nominative fair 32 standpoint 32 macroevolution 32 ignoramus 32 recent guest bleg 32 ping pong 32 balderdash 32 parenthetical phrase 32 prepositional 32 moron 32 exhortation 32 voo doo 32 INSKEEP 32 nonsensical 32 unbearable lightness 32 antics ensue 32 aw * ker 32 mmfa 32 scriptural interpretations 32 Keynesian theory 32 dung beetle 32 kludge 32 pussyfoot 32 worldview 32 grossly distorting 32 technologic advances 32 negative connotation 32 apocryphal story 32 fundamental misreading 32 Columnist Charles Krauthammer 32 modus operandi 32 profoundly unjust 32 deliciously ironic 32 Biblical scripture 32 Metaphors 32 algebraic equation 32 delicious irony 32 divining rod 32 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