The Bone Wars, also known as the "Great Dinosaur Rush", refers to a period of intense fossil speculation and discovery during the Gilded Age of American history, marked by a heated rivalry between Edward Drinker Cope (of the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia) and Othniel Charles Marsh (of the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale).
After you testified before House Democrats in February about the limited contraceptive coverage in Georgetown University's insurance plan, Rush Limbaugh referred to you as a "slut" on his radio show.
Opponents of President Obama's health-care-reform bill tarred it as a government giveaway (Rush Limbaugh referred to it as a backdoor means for Obama to give blacks reparations for slavery).
After Rush Limbaugh referred to Iraq war veterans critical of the war as "phony soldiers," the CEO of Clear Channel Communications, the parent company of Mr. Limbaugh's syndicator, Premiere Radio Networks, received a letter of complaint signed by 41 Democratic senators.
On Thursday, Rush Limbaugh referred to the backlash over his comments about Sandra Fluke as a "manufactured controversy".
During his May 5 appearance on FOX News, Rush Limbaugh referred to Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (D), who is Hispanic, as a "shoe shine guy".
Food is valued for its psychotropic "rush"; Nigella Lawson refers to salted caramel as "this Class A foodstuff".
It has long been a favorite target of ridicule among Republicans: Rush Limbaugh refers to the court, headquartered in San Francisco, as the "Ninth Circus," and many bloggers call it the "nutty Ninth".
Rush Limbaugh referring to the president as a "black man-child," for example.
(When senators swear at each other, or when Rush Limbaugh refers to a young woman as a 'slut,' we aren't cool with that).
