The Meaning of "Is" and the Meaning of "Isn't"

All the publicity for Bill Clinton's excessively long autobiography -- what, is he trying to top David Foster Wallace? -- has me thinking about that gold-misted era when the nation was worried about the President's definition of the word "is."

These days, our attention has been focused on the word "isn't" instead, as in, "We can torture this man, because he isn't a citizen of a state we recognize as a party to the Geneva Convention."

Personally, I'm all for accentuating the positive.

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The Meaning of "Is" and the Meaning of "Isn't"

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