odds & ends from CNN

[Laurence Horn]

At 10:16 AM -0500 2/23/11, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>Yesterday an Ohio State Senator said emphatically that "any connection"
>between collective bargaining and the state's budget shortfall is "a
>complete misnomer."  She used "misnomer" in this way at least twice.  Common
>but most annoying,
>She also explained that the state employees' unions have "taken many
>concessions."  She said that twice also. It means they made them.

And, before Jerry Cohen mentions it, blending that with "taken many hits"

LH

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