The Rhetorical Situation

Christopher Buckley, son of the Conservative Icon and recently departed William F. Buckley, has been fired (officially, he "resigned...

Via the AP. Wag of the Finger Los Angeles police are looking for a man who beat up a 16-year-old girl at a McDonald's counter after she...

He damned sure aint talking to a parrot in this one. Great use of music, too. And nothing in this Ad is untrue. Indeed, the truth may be ...

The recent Nader Ad. Harrogate just noticed that Andrew Sullivan also has this up on his blog but--SURPRISE--all Sully has to say about it ...

Well, given the proximity of the convention, Obama's text message announcement of his Veep pick ought to be coming in any day. Speaking...

O For God's Sake . Now, Harrogate thought it mildly amusing when, after the invasion of Iraq, Bush supporters began the "'W...

Reuters reports that researchers have traced the world's oldest recorded joke--a fart joke--back to 1900 B.C.E. It was a saying among ...

He's so . . . well . . . ASSY. And, in so many ways. But yet, even challenging, let alone deconstructing, the real veracity of his act...

The more Harrogate sees of this blog , the more he likes it. Things keep going the way they're going, somebody's gonna get blogrolle...

In the first two installments, Readers were acquainted with Assy McGee 's engagement with themes related to Rhetorics of Masculinity, St...

Here is another video, movingly entitled "A Salute to Assy (asshole)" The song, "I'm An Asshole," written and perfor...

Sigh. Why the hell didn't someone tell Harrogate about this cartoon? Apparently it has been a'happening since 2006. There is no wa...