My friend is a radio personality for Moody radio ( My son is a student at Moody Bible Institute, and now I listen to her more than ever!). I laughed out loud when I saw this on her Facebook wall this morning...
Ambrose Bierce was a 19th century Greg Gutfeld, publicly criticizing businessmen and politicians in the politically correct cloak of sarcasm and cleverness. I wonder if he drew this conclusion after seeing many an angry rant from those powerful men. Or perhaps it is a sobering lesson he learned from losing his own temper.
I find it ironic that the publisher of The Devil's Dictionary columns is now being quoted by a Christian radio station. I suppose God can use anyone to communicate His message. *wink*
I am not going to lie, I really wish I was as good at blogging and made it all cute and stuff like you do! I love how you incorporate social media like face book and twitter into our american literature class. I am younger, 21, so I am not one to pick up a really "exciting" american literature piece, but I am actually really happy I took this class because I have learned a lot from the readings and from the students as well! Some really bright minds in this class! I really enjoyed this quote that you posted, because I feel this is something that happens all the time, the old saying of "when you are mad you say things you do not mean" and this quote sort of wraps that up, because it is telling you to say what you want to say because that is how you are feeling at that moment, and even though it is powerful and makes sense at the time, later you may regret some things you said. So the question in its self would be if it is worth to say or not worth it! Thank you so much for your post, I am excited to read more :)
ReplyDeleteChelsey Meyer