analogies

Congressman Steve Cohen has a reputation of saying what is ever on his mind and usually his words are laced with pop culture analogies, Memphis anecdotes as well as that he is Tennessee’s only liberal rep in Congress.

Congressman Cohen attempted to surgically remove his foot from his mouth after going on a local Fox affiliate where he said in reference to Sen. Clinton, "Glenn Close should have just stayed in the tub." Over at Egalia's house, Rep. Cohen left a comment apologizing for his remark:

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Jesus as fantasy.

Atheists think they’re being clever with their spaghetti monster analogies and fairy tale rhetoric, but at the end of the day, they come off sound like condescending pricks.

It is hard not to look at the horrible economic events upon us and wonder whether someone in al-Qaeda is watching and proclaiming, "Mission Accomplished." Forget analogies to Waterloo. Will the Iraq War be to American global power what the 1980s Afghanistan War was to Soviet global power?

It is hard not to look at the horrible economic events upon us and wonder whether someone in al-Qaeda is watching and proclaiming, "Mission Accomplished." Forget analogies to Waterloo. Will the Iraq War be to American global power what the 1980s Afghanistan War was to Soviet global power?

Truman Bean uses war time analogies to describe what the results of the the Iowa Caucuses could mean for Fred Thompson: