permatorium

[Joel S. Berson]

permatorium:  A hair salon where one can get styled like Tom Brady.

Joel

At 5/12/2012 03:22 AM, Victor Steinbok wrote:
> From WaPo fact-checker:
>
>http://goo.gl/GKsFR
>>The president's opponents have accused him of stunting the economic
>>recovery with a barrage of harmful new regulations ranging from a
>>supposed "permatorium" on offshore oil drilling to stricter rules
>>aimed at reducing farm dust -- neither of which has actually taken
>>effect during Obama's term.
>
>The same context has seen the metaphorical use of "tsunami" by Rep.
>Issa. (as in "regulatory tsunami") It's not a singular incident, but
>it's still somewhat unusual.
>
>VS-)
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