I just heard some Democrat use that irritating phrase, for the umptillionth time. Whenever I hear it, the physicist in me wonders how a tax cut can be “massive.” It seems to me to be primarily a rhetorical trick. In fact, I suspect that most Dems think that any tax cut, of whatever size, is “massive,” regardless of the units…

And while I’m on the subject of irrational political rhetoric, I’m still bothered by Al Gore’s idiotic and repetitious use of the phrase “blow a hole in the deficit” in the 1996 campaign. How do you blow a hole in a hole?