You Can Call It ‘The Other White Meat,’ It’s Still Pork
As you may (or may not) know, the original meaning of earmark is identification mark on the ear of a domestic animal and it’s no surprise that the domestic animal most earmarked is a pig, one of only two producers of pork in the entire world.
Pork in politics.
The Quicker Picker Upper, The Other White Meat, if there’s not a cool name for a dull product, then it doesn’t exist in America. Even among the hot-button issues, metaphor rules. Rape has become non-consensual sex, the hungry have very low food security and crooked politicians are ethically deprived. You gotta love it.
Thus Robert Novak’s column of a few days ago, Earmark Subterfuge, caught my eye because each word in the two-word title is so careful. I’m not a great fan of Novak, but he had some interesting things to say.
As you may (or may not) know, the original meaning of earmark is identification mark on the ear of a domestic animal and it’s no surprise that the domestic animal most earmarked is a pig, one of only two produce…