rhetorical device, literary technique, or situation in which there is an incongruity between the literal and the implied meaning
Victor Davis Hanson of National Review Online ponders the politics of dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic. Where has the coronavirus gone? Nowhere. The pandemic has gained a second wind, even…
Victor Davis Hanson devotes his latest National Review Online column to placing the current state of nationwide civil unrest in historical context. The ancient Greeks created new words like “paradox”…
My guess is that the irony totally escapes the owners of this establishment.
I want to keep this blog a place where maybe we can improve each other’s minds instead of stepping on them. However, there is a story of incredible irony which,…
I survived Ohio, where the only customer service I got came from the police at a road block. I had a burnt-out headlight, which resulted in about an hour of…
Spotted in Orange County over the weekend: a car with two stickers affixed to the back bumper. Sticker #1: Republicans, Stop Telling Me How To Live My Life! Sticker #2:…
It was brought to my attention today that, at last week’s Moral Monday protests, one of the issues was cuts to government funded exercise programs for kids. As the protesters…
…you have both a “One people, one planet, one future” bumper sticker and a “Celebrate diversity” bumper sticker on your car and don’t see the irony.
No pun intended, but I hammered away at the City of Greensboro’s $20 million GTA headquarters and maintenance facility from the beginning. Now the Rhino’s John Hammer hammers away, describing…
This could be almost be an episode of the Twilight Zone with all the strange twists and turns all resulting in atomic irony. I’ll give you the short version: City…
As I was applying to Duke’s med school last night, I came across this one remarkable paragraph. No joke! “Duke University prohibits discrimination and harassment and provides equal employment opportunity…
Earlier this year I chronicled the saga of Adam Bliss, the owner of Chapel Hill hookah bar Hookah Bliss, in his effort to fight the state’s ban on smoking in…