Jens 'n' Frens
Idle thoughts of a relatively libertarian Republican in Cambridge, MA, and whomever he invites. Mostly political.
"A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures." -- Daniel Webster
Friday, March 26, 2004 :::
My brother complains (off-handedly) about Jonah Goldberg's use of the word "literally" in
Newdow is unconcerned by the fact that if he got his way he'd be slapping, literally, hundreds of millions of Americans in the face.
My first response when I read this was the same as my brother's, but then I decided to suppose that Goldberg meant that the hundreds of millions were literal, rather than the slapping in the face. It's debatable whether the ambiguity is sufficient to permit this charitable reading; only Jonah would know what he was actually thinking.