The People's Cube

Funny stuff from a site called "the people's cube"

... a newsfeed from the future

... life behind the irony curtain

Neologisms (For inclusion into 2100 Biden-Webster Dictionary)

• Condecession: set-asides or subsidies to groups one feels sorry for.
• Defaulty setting: Something incorrect that's widely believed because it was the first explanation proposed rather than because there was any actual evidence or proof.
• Dimprovement: A bad, dimwitted improvement that isn't better, often worse. (Can you say New Coke, Vista operating system or nationalized health care?)
• Feelosophy: positions and policies adopted because they make you feel good or virtuous rather than on any reasoned basis or because they could possibly work.
• Iconoklatch: group of nonconformists who uniformly conform to an "alternative" set of standards.
• Infopinion: The intermingling of news and opinion so that it's hard to tell which is what. Often called analysis.
• Literateur: Someone who talks about and refers to books they've never actually read. Think Wealth of Nations or Das Kapital.
• Malapropitization: Needlessly adding prefixes and suffixes to words to make yourself sound erudite, more scholarlisticalful.
• Nincomproof: A line of thinking both logical yet so unreasonable only an idiot or an intellectual would buy it.
• Oprahtunity: The chance to cash in on fame in one area in another area you really have no qualification for. (Al Gore for instance.)
• Psychophant: A lunatic follower of a lunatic leader. (See Marxist-Leninist)
• Sophistreatment: A "fake but accurate" film treatment. Such as any "documentary" film by Michael Moore, or docudrama by Oliver Stone.
• Shamnesia: a condition where one cannot remember personal details or incidents on the advice of their attorney.
• Spoofemism: Play on words making fun of a euphemism. Like calling a bald guy "tonsorially challenged."
• Straw-man Poll: a poll where the questions are composed to get only the answer you're looking for.
• Wishteria: A craze people fall for because they want it to be true. (Also see Obamania.)
• Xenotopia: Something you find unbearable but, strangely, other people desire.

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