Dictu

After steadfastly and guiltily ignoring it for about three years, I have finally made a small update to my website: added my 2008 LJ post ‘The Taste for Magic’, which has (mirabile dictu!) attracted new comments in the last day or so. ❋ Superversive (2010)

Englishings of Tibullus and, mirabillime dictu, the riddles of St. Aldhelm are in the works. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Added Krauthammer, “Obama has now decided that the man he simply could not banish because he had become part of Obama himself is, mirabile dictu, surgically excised.” ❋ Jack Cashill (2011)

Mirabile dictu, our perfect system sometimes sends innocent persons to prison. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The patently anti-semitic ones that MaryG serves up, which Orin Kerr and others (including, mirabile dictu, non-Jews like eplubibus) have called out and you seem to endorse, or at least to allow as plausible, e.g., the citation scam. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But then 99.7% of you reading this do not understand "Mirabile dictu." ❋ Unknown (2009)

I found it remarkable from the get-go that we continued irresponsible tax cuts while going to war, and, mirable dictu, the conservatives who had financed the entire war on credit without the slightest interest in its effect on the deficit rediscovered balanced budgets as soon as Democratic-preferred programs could be constrained. ❋ Unknown (2010)

How many of these problems: energy efficiency/self-sufficiency, financial regulation/reform, health care, deficit reduction (in times of growth) have been sloshing around, like forever: as problems that everyone knew was there, like a slobberingly drunk relative sleeping it off in the corner, but, just like the uncle, were politely ignored -- or the free market would solve them all, mirabile dictu! ❋ Unknown (2010)

Apple now has a bigger market cap than Microsoft (a prospect that not even the most devoted Apple fans would ever have imagined); the company is directly threatening Google for control of a significant part of the digital customer's money and time; Jobs 'problems with the SEC have, magically, disappeared; and he seems, mirable dictu, very much alive. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Will there be — mirabile dictu! — an actual bipartisan vote in favor of financial reform? ❋ Unknown (2010)

If you don't think too much about that statement, it sounds as if the oil is, mirabile dictu, pretty much taken care of. ❋ Unknown (2010)

So a week ago, 60 interested citizens sat in the spacious ninth-floor conference room of the new soaring glass tower at Baruch College to watch the commission, mirabile dictu, openly deliberate difficult issues at its last public session. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Rock band AC/DC — who, mirabile dictu, actually are Australian — decided to leave their castles in Europe and are doing something called "The Black Ice Tour." ❋ Robert Skeffington (2010)