I was sitting in my cubicle today and I realized ever since I started working, um, every single day of my life has been worse than the day before it. So that means that every single day that you see me—that’s on the worst day of my life.
By which I mean, today I read a subhed in the PoR: “one of the deadliest three-day periods since the American invasion.” And I thought to myself, gosh, that phrasing sounds familiar. So I searched the Times for articles over just the last year that included all the words deadliest, since, invasion, and Iraq. This is a fairly stringent request; it won’t find “most deadly,” or pieces that only name Mosul or Falluja, or anything concerning “the deadliest week over the last 12 months” and the like. Even with all these limits, this particular fact has been news 20 times since last Thanksgiving.
Turning the corner? We’ve turned a score of corners; we turn one about every 18 days, and all they have in common is that each is more deadly than the last.
Posted by jane at November 20, 2005 10:11 PM | TrackBack