"Emergency Outrage" --My new favorite phrase

L.A.Times reports on the California Medical Association's vote this week in which 449 of 450 physician delegates voted to express "emergency outrage" at Bush administration maneuvering on the Schiavo case - Link from the American Journal of Bioethics

Sometimes I stumble upon a perfect phrase. "Emergency outrage" is just such a phrase.

For years we have had Outrage Fatigue. And the dumbest US Senator of them all, James Inhofe was "outraged by the outrage" when commenting about the protests about torture in Abu Ghraib. But I really like this new classification of outrage. In order to be exact, we need these new phrases to describe our levels of outrage. I look foreword to the proliferation of new types of outrage. Alert readers, please send us examples of other types of outrage. A few examples to get you started:

"Friday night Outrage!" This is Liberal outrage based on the Friday afternoon document dumps that reveal some new mendacity from the Bush administration

"Fox Faux Outrage!" The kind of spittle-driven fake outrage you see on Fox News where they whip themselves into a frothy swivet over some issue that is sure to please their viewers.

"Casablanca Outrage!" Describes the cynical outrage people mean when they quote Captain Renault's classic cynical phrase, "I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!" No you aren't.

Now it's time for me to emulate the former San Francisco Police officer, Alex Fagan Jr., and use a very quick burst of energy-type action and do some emergency outrage research.