Lots of issues such as "lay vs lie" and "may vs might" discussed:

Grammar Traps, presented by the Department of Agricultural Communication at Purdue University

From mikz's journal ( Read more... )

The issue--whether or not a school can regulate the length of hair of its students--is a minor one, except of course for its civil rights implications. But the way the judge ruled--his rationale and his explanations--is just so logical and delicious.

To Mullit or not to Mullit(It also makes me proud that this was a judge in Rhode Island. Not ( Read more... )

Here's a bit of silliness for you. (Morrissey was the lead singer of the Smiths.)

I find this page oddly soothing. I think there's supposed to be music, but it's not coming through on Mozilla or IE.

signs is a good movie. It's not slow but instead deliberate. I'm glad I finally watched it in spite of all the bad reviews.

Ladder stitch is very confusing (compared to nice 'n easy peyote stitch).

I don't have the patience to go for a fifth attempt tonight.

The outpouring of support has been tremendous. It's really helping me to hear from y'all. I have responses to your comments, but I'm too tired to write them up right now. I will respond in the next few days; know for now that you have already helped me.

Dr. Noel Goldthwaite, a doctor with the SpineCare clinic in Daly City, refused to treat me today because I am fat.

( Cut for those who don't want to read about body issues )

They finally wrote a spam subject line that I couldn't not click on, just in case it was real ( Read more... )

In case you didn't see it in the comments of my last post, Books for Soldiers looks like a fine organization. I think I'll divert some of my give-away books to that instead of bookcrossing.com.

Thanks, shoutingboy!