Excoriations, what a name for a blog post. It may not be a good name. Too negative for those who know the word and too academically snobbish for those who don't. Then again, those who know the word might correctly assume that it is just a title, used for effect, not to be taken too seriously. And those who don't know it might be simply intrigued.
Excoriate: to denounce or berate severely; flay verbally.
But also: to strip off or remove the skin from.
I don't actually intend to devote all my time here to the former (literally) or the latter (figuratively). But there are some things I believe to be bad that I also believe should be identified as such. Talk may be cheap, but when the power brokers announce to us all that the moon is made of green cheese, we had better risk some cheap talk lest we risk some very expensive silence.
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