Two and a half months since I posted. I officially suck. Lots going on, none of it very interesting ( Read more... )

David Gregory interviewed Michele Bachmann on Meet the Press Sunday. I haven't watched the whole interview; I don't think I could stomach it after watching just this clip in which Gregory plays portions of a 2004 speech containing her views on homosexuality and then asks her some very basic questions about whether her views have changed and how ( Read more... )

Op-ed piece in the 8/14 NYTimes: Stop Coddling the Super-Rich

Gacked from janissa11 : NPR asked listeners/readers to nominate books for the Top 100 Science Fiction/Fantasy books and then to vote on them. This list is the result. Before howling with righteous anger about the absence of Harry Potter, Golden Compass, Narnia, or some other favorite, bear in mind that the criteria specifically excluded novels that the ( Read more... )

There have been some interesting articles lately about language, specifically about spelling, punctuation, and grammar.

From the NY Times, which has seen the quality of its own copy editing decline precipitously in recent years: The Price of Typos. The author posits that bad spellers "see through" misspelled words to the ideas behind the words. ( Read more... )

 I just emailed my Representative and Senators--all of whom are Republicans--a polite, thoughtful note urging them to get their shit together and learn to play nicely with the other kids in Congress and the President before I and their other constituents get REALLY PISSED OFF. Or something to that effect ( Read more... )

 Re-tweeted by many, this is a post from James Fallows on The Atlantic's mobile site that picks up a graphic from a recent NY Times article showing what makes up the current federal budget deficit ( Read more... )

From various recaps of the SPN panel at Comic-con ( Read more... )

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