Figures of speech

This morning, I’ve come across two figures of speech just too delicious not to share...

Matthew Yglesias, courtesy of Crooked Timber:

...the alert citizen will have learned not to trust the administration to make S’mores without plunging half the nation into a sticky-sweet inferno of death.

Steve Gilliard:

What Bode Miller is to Olympic triumph, George Bush is to Presidential history, flopping off the slick course of national politics like James Buchanan in Team USA spandex.

Which do you like better? Tough call.