Wednesday, June 13, 2007

There's a blog for everything ...

The Housing Doom Housing Bubble Blog has an blurb and some comments about Arizona's mortgage fraud legislation.

Commenter 'ducksface' writes:
I’ve read the bill. It has a basic ring of truth to it but it simply duplicates laws already on the books but specifically mentions the word mortgage in it.
The head of the AZDFI will use it to punish appraisers. Right now appraisers are not under the AZDFI but this bill will allow easier unilateral investigations and punishments outside of the specific enforcing agency much like a drug task force sometimes uses animal control laws to get more charges to stick.
More rosy news in Phoenix May Home Sales Are Slow- And This Is Rush Hour -- a title that I initially considered a form of dry humor but now categorize as the reverse.

2 comments:

John M said...

OK, I'll bite. What is the reverse of dry humor?

Anonymous said...

I wondered about that ...

From http://www.thefreedictionary.com/dry
dry - humorously sarcastic or mocking; "dry humor"; "an ironic remark often conveys an intended meaning obliquely"; "an ironic novel"; "an ironical smile"; "with a wry Scottish wit"

Would the title in question be more like a simile?

And is a simile the reverse of 'dry humor?'

Got me ...