Tag: State of the Union address

Snapshot of the SOTU

I love Wordle, the site at which you can input text and get a visual image of the most frequently used words.  Frequency is measured by size. So, I took the text from the State of the Union address (thanks NPR for providing it) and below is the graphic Worlde produced.  I did this once to a SOTU address from… Continue reading

I Hadn’t Really Thought about This

Image by elycefeliz via Flickr But I bet this is true. Why are the Tea Party people and Glenn Beck‘s fans are so upset about the federal government? Because, in their view, integration was forced down their unwilling throats by judicial and legislative fiat. The lunatic fringe conservatism that Mr. Beck espouses with such goofy eloquence is driven, among other… Continue reading