Libby Copeland has unsheathed her vorpal sword to dispense with all sorts of fantastic phrases in her recent special report for the Washington Post:
If we strain, we can recall a time before the leak probe, when yellowcake was for birthdays, and we knew not how to properly pronounce Niger. (That's Nee-jehr, darlings.) After Friday's five-count indictment of vice presidential chief of staff I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, we consider how far we have come, with this look at the lexicon of the Plame Game.
“Ordinary people without licence will carry on inventing words and idioms. The language belongs to them too.” —Philip Howard
