“Words have power. For example, they can be used to tell a pretty enormous lie.”

Tiger Beatdown has a long, interesting, rather esoteric piece on Rahm Emanuel, Sarah Palin, and the use of the word “retarded,” to which I don’t have anything to add except that it would be nice if anything in politics measured up to this level of intellectual curiosity.

Incidentally, more temperate disagreement continues between a reader and I in the the comments of this post.