In traditional U.S. Army slang dating back to the Second World War, a blivet was defined as "ten pounds of manure in a five pound bag," (a proverbial description of anything egregiously ugly or unmanageable); it was applied to an unmanageable situation, a crucial but substandard or damaged tool, or a self-important person.

Today's word for the day! As used in the which is a bigger blivet? Bush trying to redefine the Geneva Conventions to allow what we've been doing to people we've been doing to people at places like Gitmo, Bagram and the secret prisons, or Bush for trying to do so?

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