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Friday, October 21, 2005

Bad metaphor of the day.

Maggie Gallagher is guest-blogging at Volokh Conspiracy about same-sex marriage -- "SSM."
Imagine you stand in the middle of vast, hostile desert. A camel is your only means of transversing it, your lifeline to the future. The camel is burdened-- stumbling, loaded down, tired; enfeebled-- the conditions of the modern life are clearly not favorable to it. But still it’s your only hope, because to get across that desert you need a camel.

Now, chop off its legs and order it to carry you to safety.

That’s what SSM looks like, to me.

Man, that would work as comedy writing for "The Colbert Report"!

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