Lister said people should follow the 1946 advice of writer George Orwell: "Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print."

A judge on Monday ordered Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to answer written questions about an election-eve e-mail his campaign distributed that falsely suggested a woman accusing him of sexual misconduct was a convicted prostitute.
Miller was one of 16 women whose allegations that Schwarzenegger had groped them or made sexually provocative remarks in their presence roiled the final days of last year's gubernatorial recall election.

"With the Spanish election, we are witnessing a capitulation to savagery that makes full-scale war inevitable. The Democratic candidate wants to represent Godless Europeans.
The Republican candidate wants to represent Americans."
--Ann Coulter, de facto leader of the Republican party