soapboxes

One of Mr. Zindler's primary "soapboxes" is the restaurant report, in which he tramples the pronunciation of all sorts of ethnic and language names of local restaurants.

languagehat.com: PRONUNCIATION WARS IN TEXAS. 2005

After all, the grant-giving agency, with $168 million in annual appropriations, is both the government's chief financial pipeline to artistic endeavors and one of the few national soapboxes for a collection of creative disciplines that feels increasingly marginalized in American life.

NEA chairman provokes heated debate: How much art is too much? Peter Marks 2011

Passions and soapboxes -- Of course, chili powder!

Texas potato salad, what is it? | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2009

Fact of TV life: If you choose to watch a David E. Kelley melodrama, you're going to need a high tolerance level for soapboxes.

Ask Matt: The Grey's Baby, NCIS: LA, Castle, Friday Night Lights & More 2011

You have speaker after speaker at CPAC, standing on soapboxes to see who could be the most blind to the realities of the world.

Robert J. Elisberg: The Hole Truth About the Republican Party Robert J. Elisberg 2011

"Perry's entry shifts the dynamic," said Steve King, a rightwing congressman from Iowa, who was speaking at the Iowa state fair, where a string of Republican candidates used soapboxes to address voters sitting on straw bales.

Rick Perry targets Bible belt to ignite Republican race for the White House 2011

And as professional journalists too late realize their jobs can be eliminated at any moment, they're all using their soapboxes, while they still have them, to desperately try to convince us that they're still valuable.

Archive 2009-06-01 2009

Perhaps they'll think twice if their pants all all poofy from their mandated pampers while they're standing on their soapboxes.

Palin accepts apology but says time for change 2009

It was the the home of liberalism, an enlightened democracy where you could say anything, where you could stand on soapboxes and talk rubbish, and nobody cared.

The Saturday interview: Janet Suzman 2011

But choking off open discussion/critique is a common practice of any number of authoritarian soapboxes on the Web.

An explicit statement of the prescriptivist philosophy « Motivated Grammar 2010