Wednesday, May 04, 2005

Irritating "In" Phrase: Chilling Effect

"Chilling Effect" is one of the more widely used phrases these days, mostly utilized by the Left. Everything is "chilling". The latest event that had a "chilling effect" was two weeks ago when 10,000 felons-at-large were rounded up. So "chilling" was this event that members of the Left caterwauled every chance they got about how "chilling" it was. Ugh.

Let me emphatically state. This phrase is irritating, boilerplate, and overused. It's a failure of hyperbole on a massive scale. It scares no one, save the people who have screamed about "chilling effects" for the last five years. One wonders, given all these "chilling effects" their effects on freedom of speech, how these people are able to scream about "chilling effects" after all these years, time and again? At what point will these people cease being "chilled" and actually go into a state of hypothermia?

Not anytime soon, I would imagine. They're too damn overheated to begin with.

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