Metaphor

More than a metaphor: Saudi women’s drive for independence

25 May 2012

It has been over a year sinceM a n a l Al-Sharif’s defiance of the Saudi ban on women behind the wheel landed her in jail and sparked a social movement, Women2Drive.

Jim Clyburn Referring to Corporate Machinations as 'Rape' Is a Bad Call

22 May 2012

Democratic Rep. Jim Clyburn said on MSNBC Tuesday he had a problem with Mitt Romney and Bain Capital "raping companies and leaving them in debt," a poorly selected metaphor that even his friends don't much like. In context his quote read (via Talking Points Memo):

America expands once again _ digitally, this time

19 May 2012

The metaphor is an easy one, overused and perhaps even a bit overwrought. We are forging forward into a digital frontier, leaving convention behind, traveling without guides into an uncharted virtual land where progress and...