Liberal Alert!

We have a local weekly news/talk/panel discussion program on our PBS affiliate. It follows (and tries to imitate) Washington Week on the national PBS network. One of the topics this evening was the arguments in the Supreme Court on the two cases involving same-sex marriage (not that there would be anything to be done one way or the other locally).

The four panelists include a conservative, a liberal, a reporter from the newspaper, and a TV or web reporter. The liberal seat is currently held by Clay Bennett , the Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist on the “left side” of the local paper’s editorial page. Of course, we think he’s fabulous.

At the end of each program, each panelist is given time to briefly mention a story or make a comment that hadn’t been discussed on the program, but that he/she felt was important. Bennett was last tonight.

He said that there were any number of  oxymorons in common usage - a phrase with generally contradictory components. Examples would be “jumbo shrimp”, “accurate estimate”, “calm winds”, “military intelligence”, etc. Bennett said that he had come up with a new oxymoron…


“Justice Scalia”.