A few days ago, Boing Boing guest blogger Richard Metzger pronounced the stunning revelation that "Marx was right!" Of course, he doesn't go on to actually tell us how Marx was right, instead preferring merely to make a series of assertions about the degree of his verisimilitude (bold added by me).

In response to the failure to pass a bailout for the Big 3 auto makers, VP Dick Cheney make the comment, "It's Herbert Hoover time." (Doesn't have quite the same ring as "It's Miller time!") The implication is that by not passing the aid, we will face a period of extended recession, much like the Great Depression, which many people believe was protracted by President Hoover's economic policy.

In other words, this is the worst form of double speak.