brinksmanship


sorabji.com: Words: brinksmanship
By sarah on Friday, October 10, 2008 - 11:19 am:

    overheard on NPR this morning, with reference to North Korea:

    "masters of brinksmanship"


    brink�man�ship

    the technique or practice of maneuvering a dangerous situation to the limits of tolerance or safety in order to secure the greatest advantage, esp. by creating diplomatic crises.




    i dig it.


By patrick on Friday, October 10, 2008 - 08:58 pm:

    you mean like the brinkmanship that is happening at some recent mccain campaign rallies?

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081010/ap_on_el_pr/mccain_angry_crowds

    shit, what's next, they going to call for lunching obama?

    its actually fucking creepy, these people. i swear to god this country has taken about 50 steps back towards the stone age


By Antigone on Friday, October 10, 2008 - 09:30 pm:

    Lunching him? Are they to take his meat?

    They want to poison his presidency like they did Clinton's. Only this time we know their game, and we can play it right back at them.

    It's time to drown Republicans in the bathtub.


By patrick on Monday, October 13, 2008 - 03:23 pm:

    heh..

    lunchmeat

    i'ts been over a week since ive been laid and everything is porno for me.

    i flew to denver this weekend, writing in my journal i made a note of the grand canyon and how beautiful it was from 39k ft, then as i write "hoover dam" and i noted something terribly porno about those words "hoover" and "dam"