The Rittenhouse Review

A Philadelphia Journal of Politics, Finance, Ethics, and Culture


Monday, June 26, 2006  

MARTIN PERETZ SCRIBBLES
But Capitally So

Martin Peretz, the self-described "titular editor-in-chief" of the New Republic, on Friday posted an item at the magazine's blog, The Plank.

I quote here from the second paragraph:

An old professor of mine once warned me against writers who use capital letters for emphasis. Good advice she gave me. Capital letters suggest some imbalance in the mind of their employer.

And now from the third:

THE NEW REPUBLIC is very much against the Bush tax programs, against Bush Social Security "reform," against cutting the inheritance tax, for radical health care changes, passionate about Gore-type environmentalism, for a woman's entitlement to an abortion, for gay marriage, for an increase in the minimum wage, for pursuing aggressively alternatives to our present reliance on oil and our present tax preferences for gas-guzzling automobiles.

Mentally imbalanced capitalization in original.

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