{"id":33245,"date":"2017-05-27T17:34:45","date_gmt":"2017-05-27T21:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=33245"},"modified":"2017-05-27T17:34:45","modified_gmt":"2017-05-27T21:34:45","slug":"announcement-a-new-expression-of-horror-etc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=33245","title":{"rendered":"Announcement: a new expression of horror, etc."},"content":{"rendered":"

Thank you, Laurence Tribe<\/a>, for answering my desperate call for a new letter group expression other than OMG.<\/p>\n

It’s not that I’m getting tired of OMG. It’s that OMG is sort of wearing out its punch. (Read Paul Tillich,<\/a> although I can’t remember in which of his books I read about epiphanic expressions–religious, in his case–losing their power to thrill after years of ritualistic repetition.)<\/p>\n

So, how excited did I get when Laurence Tribe, constitutional scholar and Harvard Law prof, used this in a tweet: “OMFG”?<\/p>\n

If it works for him, it works for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thank you, Laurence Tribe, for answering my desperate call for a new letter group expression other than OMG. It’s not that I’m getting tired of OMG. It’s that OMG is sort of wearing out its punch. (Read Paul Tillich, although … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1095,1175],"tags":[1453,1183,1452],"class_list":["post-33245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-the-facts-of-life","tag-laurence-tribe","tag-twitter","tag-twitter-expressions"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t