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 ...

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 ...

We all know of Oxymorons -- Rap Music, Military Intelligence, Sharp Curves, that kind of thing.<BR><BR>Then there are Tautologies -- cold ice, thin skin ...<BR><BR>Well today I heard a kinda ...

Notes: A tautology is the opposite of an oxymoron, in which two words contradict each other, such as "the living dead." In play: When you hear a phrase like "waffling politician," "greedy executive" ...