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| Alexander Woollcott |
“It may please you to know that one year ago, General
Eisenhower was a lieutenant colonel,” he wrote. “When men of ability are
needed, the Army has always known how to bring them through the ranks. I, you
might recall, was similarly promoted from private to sergeant in the last war,
and you know how well that came out.”
“Post hoc ergo propter hoc” is Latin for “After this,
therefore because of this.” It’s a propaganda technique used frequently by the
confused and the intellectually dishonest — as, for example, when
fundamentalist Christians claim that the existence of gay people causes
hurricanes and earthquakes.
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