9 Chickweed Lane by Brooke McEldowney for November 12, 2006

Transcript:

"It says here that the consulate was surrounded by an angry mob." "The term 'angry mob' would seem to be rather redundant." "Have you ever heard of a tolerant mob, a kindly disposed mob, a charitable mob...a thoughtful mob?" "A mob without pitchforks, without torches, without burning effigies, threats on placards, hate in its throat - without a scaffold at its nucleus - is a mob in the nude." "It's cute the way your socio-philosophical reveries always incorporate the word 'nude'." "As usual, you veer from my thesis."