“Dirty Dozen” Decimated

By Corey • September 21, 2007 • 2 comments

Each year the League of Conservation Voters puts out a non-partisan list of the 12 most despicably anti-environment congresspeople. According to Daily Kos, of last year’s 12 only 4 were reelected, and only 3 of those will be running again in ’08!

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Corey

Corey is a New Yorker who has lived most of his life upstate but has spent the last three years in Queens. He's only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list by birding whenever he wasn't working as a union representative or spending time with his family. He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy, their son, Desmond Shearwater, and their two indoor cats, Hunter and B.B.

2 Responses to ““Dirty Dozen” Decimated”

charless Sep 21st, 2007 at 9:54 am
Corey, re: “Daily Dozen ‘Decimated’”–nice alliteration, but decimate, as its root “dec-” implies, means one out of every ten. And using decimated next to dozen really bollixes it up.
Usually, either destroyed or devastated are better choices, depending on degree, but neither really fits the bill here.
How about “down and out” in place of decimated?
Corey Sep 21st, 2007 at 10:14 am
@Charless: I appreciate your correction, and, yes, you are right, that was the original meaning of decimation. But over the years usage has changed, starting as far back as the 19th century. See dictionary.com: decimate.Â That and the title was cribbed from the Daily Kos post linked to in the text.