[Ads-l] frog-boil, n.

[Jonathan Lighter]

Jason Bateman, on _The Best People_ podcast:

"Where we currently are from McCarthyism to today....It's been a bit of
frog-boil. As much as we were aware of the heat, it did really sneak up on
us. It's here. We're in it."

JL
-- 
"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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