Bless the internet, and the people who have the time to go through all five seasons of David Simon’s seminal HBO series The Wire in order to pull out all of the show’s uses of tautology. What is ...
An impressive video surfaced earlier this month: someone edited together every tautology from The Wire in chronological order. There are a stunning number of these turns of phrase on the show. They ...
Either it will be sunny later, or not. Either it will be rainy, or not. Both statements are tautologies: propositions that define all possible or thinkable states of the world. As such, they are ...
Do you ever feel like going through every episode of The Wire and picking out all the examples of tautology for a chronological YouTube video? Well, this is exactly what one fan has done. The writers ...
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has been in the news for some time. A controversial figure in the 2023 elections, he is constantly on television. There is an aspect of his mission that I, however, ...
The crisis bedeviling the nation is not just a crisis of politics but a crisis of the grammar of politics, or political grammar, if you like. As Albert Einstein has noted, insanity is doing the same ...