Woody Paige background?

[arkyvol]

will is a smug, sanctimonious ass. reading him is tedious and unnecessary. give me any subject and i can tell you within a degree just what he has to say about it.

p.s.: if you want to enjoy better writing, more cogent thought, and delightfully pass the time, read the comments to will's work in the wapo.

 

[TENNFOLD1974]

bayless is a jackass!

He's-a-friggin-Troll

 

[The Dude]

His thesaurus is broken. That's a terrible word to use to describe an opinion in 2008. My O.E.D. give a definition that works well in this context, "unstable or unsettled in opinions, etc.; inconstant; apt to change quickly," but then offers that this meaning was "Frequent in the 17th century" and offers an 1896 citation as its most recent usage. Otherwise it just means "steep" or "vertigo-inducing." There have to be a dozen better words to describe an excessively malleable opinion than that one. Assuming that your primary goal is to communicate to your audience, of course, and not to emulate George F. Will.

That's your opinion. Per my Merriam-Webster daily calandar, the word has been used to describe dizzying or quickly changing things, outside veritgo or the medical field, as recent as the 20th century.

 

[The Dude]

If you search the NY Times and Washington Post websites, they both have several articles, from as early as 2008, where "vertinginous" was used to describe non-medical circumstances. Interesting.