To those standard solutions, trade and aid, Pritchett would add a third: a big upset-the-applecart idea, equally offensive to the left and the right.

Not to say 'how d'you do' on being introduced to a stranger is equally offensive, though doubtless the greeting is strictly meaningless.

So long as there is equal representation,why not be equally offensive?

Or shown some other equally offensive reaction.

It seems to me that betting by a manager on his team to win is equally offensive as betting on them to lose.

Surely Congress would not be so literal-minded when comparing e-mail with faxes as to miss the parallel and equally offensive notion of "recipient pays"?

These situations may not match the historical view we have of slavery, but they are equally offensive.

Homer once said that it is equally offensive to speed a guest who would like to stay, and to detain one who is anxious to leave.

Equally offensive, in my view, is the president's co-option of the language of peace.