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A frog sitting on the handle of a saucepan on a hot stove. The frog in this photo was unharmed. [1] The boiling frog is an apologue describing a frog being slowly boiled alive. The premise is that if a frog is put suddenly into boiling water, it will jump out, but if the frog is put in tepid water which is then brought to a boil slowly, it will ...
From the Boiling Frogs on The Dispatch. This must be the first presidential campaign in which both candidates have the same strategy.
My former colleague Andrew Egger addressed his strategy in appropriately mocking terms: “You’ve reduced your influence by letting everyone know how you’re gonna vote—but you’ve minimized ...
Cass R. Sunstein: We should take the boiling frog tale seriously but not literally. It captures an element of human nature that has major consequences. It captures an element of human nature that ...
From the Boiling Frogs on The Dispatch. The most traditionally predictable legislative cycle in politics keeps getting harder to predict.
"When comparing the reaction of markets to the views of most national security experts, I am reminded of the story of the frog in boiling water," El-Erian added, referring to the fable of a frog ...
The State of the Union should be an easy topic for a writer. It’s a televised event; you watch it; you react. But it’s actually quite challenging to find anything non-obvious to say about it ...
A list of metaphors in the English language organised alphabetically by type. A metaphor is a literary figure of speech that uses an image, story or tangible thing to represent a less tangible thing or some intangible quality or idea; e.g.,