Common thread: Oxymoron - Bush Doctrine Wiki, Cheap Gas

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Today I found a common thread with oxymoron , bush doctrine wiki , and cheap gas. (I lost the link to cheap gas because of my slow internet connection here today).

The reason it was funny is that I taught my students the meaning of oxymoron this week. During the lecture someone asked a question and went to Google to show them how to find the answer. Some ridiculous thing showed up that was an oxymoron and I laughed and then had to explain why I laughed. I have to admit that I hoped that oxymoron made it onto the google trends list because all of my students went out and googled it....I doubt it :-)

Then as I looked at Google trends I saw things as oxymorons. Cheap gas....right! Then there is Bush Doctrine wiki. This one may be more subtle or it just may be personal belief.

(from http://dictionary.die.net/doctrine)

doctrine
  n : a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by
      some group or school

Bush Doctrine? It is hard for me to think of "Bush" and "doctrine" in the same sentence. I can't believe that he has ever thought about anything long enough to have it as a belief. And it just scares me to think that someone trusts anything that he thinks as doctrine.

Wiki's are wonderful collaborative tools. Collaboration is another term I find hard to imagine in the same sentence with "Bush". It's not clear that he understands the meaning of the word.

bush doctrine wiki - definitely an oxymoron for me.