McKenna’s World

Jumbo shrimp.  Virtual reality.  Old news.  Efficient Government Agency.  Smart TSA. These are just five examples of a figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect.  Or rather, an oxymoron. In my Social Studies class we recently learned that the TSA has developed a new screening procedure to protect the flying public (and presumably those on the ground as well). Evidently, you can [...]

What the . . . isn’t it Red, White and Blue?  Sure it is, but when you mix politics and Halloween so closely together, well you get, you know . . . Red, White and Boo! Evidently, so did the Democrats. Or, was it the citizenry – it is really hard to tell. Maybe, too [...]