Dewey's Treehouse

"Besides, sweet reasonableness, more often than not, is a clever disguise for barely concealed self-interest." ~~ David. R. Willi...

Have you seen the movie Hop? (Terrible reviews, but it did have its moments.) The main character is an out-of-work young man named Fred.  Fr...

"There are masked words droning and skulking about us....which nobody understands, but which everybody uses, and most people will also ...

The Deputy Headmistress at The Common Room has been troubled by something on another blog that wonders how those who support conservative po...

What are weasel words, anyway? I thought that was just a phrase coined by Northrop Frye, but apparently it has a whole history behind it . A...