6 definitions by Max Debord
1. A derogatory term used by ignorant U.S. rightwingers to describe the forms of affordable and efficient health care practiced in Canada and many parts of Europe and elsewhere. Originally coined in the 1950s to defeat any proposal to limit the rights of doctors and insurance and drug companies in the U.S. to profit from disease and human misery.
2. Any proposal advanced by a Democrat or anyone else on the left to improve the ruinously expensive and inefficient U.S. health care system.
2. Any proposal advanced by a Democrat or anyone else on the left to improve the ruinously expensive and inefficient U.S. health care system.
1. "I don't care if people live longer and healthier lives in Canada. That shit is socialized medicine, and it takes away my right to go bankrupt and die when my insurance company pulls the plug."
2. "Hillary's health care plan was a give-away to the drug companies and the HMOs."
"I don't care. She's a Democrat, so her plan was really socialized medicine."
2. "Hillary's health care plan was a give-away to the drug companies and the HMOs."
"I don't care. She's a Democrat, so her plan was really socialized medicine."
by Max Debord April 15, 2007
To avoid admitting a wrong by hair-splitting or obfuscation. Derived from Bill Clinton's redefintion of "having sex" to exclude oral copulation with Monica Lewinsky.
by Max Debord April 15, 2007
1. A political euphemism for "escalation," itself a Vietnam-era euphemism for committing more troops to a failing military conflict. Term used by the G. W. Bush administration to disguise its lack of a coherent military strategy in Iraq and stop the public from realizing that American lives are being wasted by a whining frat-boy psychopath and a gang of brain-dead neo-con draft dodgers.
2. Any desperate last-minute manuever used to stave off inevitable disaster.
2. Any desperate last-minute manuever used to stave off inevitable disaster.
1. "Hey, the surge is working! I know, because the guy who sold me my bullet-proof vest told me so!"
2. "Dude, your dashboard is lit up like a Christmas tree."
"Hang on, homey, it's time for a surge."
2. "Dude, your dashboard is lit up like a Christmas tree."
"Hang on, homey, it's time for a surge."
by Max Debord April 15, 2007
A plan or action with some possibility of a successful outcome. Most often encountered in its negative form.
by Max Debord April 21, 2007
by Max Debord April 15, 2007
1. A setting on a coffe grinder.
2. Coffee ground at fine grind setting.
3. Fucking with not much in-and-out and a maximum of contact with the female's clitoris.
4. Something innocent but dirty to say when working the counter at Starbuck's.
2. Coffee ground at fine grind setting.
3. Fucking with not much in-and-out and a maximum of contact with the female's clitoris.
4. Something innocent but dirty to say when working the counter at Starbuck's.
1. Doofus tried to run his stash through it and fucked up the fine grind.
2. Man, this fine grind shit is just like drinking flour.
3. I gave my gf the fine grind last night, and man her box was like a microwave full of popcorn.
4. "You want the fine grind? Cuz you know I got it."
"What did you say?"
"Chill, Hillary. How you want your beans cut up?"
2. Man, this fine grind shit is just like drinking flour.
3. I gave my gf the fine grind last night, and man her box was like a microwave full of popcorn.
4. "You want the fine grind? Cuz you know I got it."
"What did you say?"
"Chill, Hillary. How you want your beans cut up?"
by Max Debord April 15, 2007