So apparently the United Nations designed a board game for Afghani children, called, "The Road to Peace." Some 10,000 or more have been distributed. Following are excerpts from the game:

Although some in your community have succumbed to growing poppies, your father has resisted this illegal practice. Move two squares forward ( Read more... )

According to the US Census Bureau there has been a 106% increase since 1990 in the number of Americans who consider themselves "nonreligious."

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By the time most of us have finished elementary school and high school, we have the notion that the parts of speech are immutable components of the language. But the truth is that the parts of speech are categories erected by grammarians for their convenient use in analyzing a language. The set used for teaching English grammar in schools-Roberts ( Read more... )

I just started a course in Advanced Grammar and the following is from our textbook:

English usage today is an area of discourse--sometimes it seems more like a dispute--about the way words are used and ought to be used. ... To understand how these opinions and rules developed, we have to go back in history, at least as far back as the year 1417, ( Read more... )

http://web.uvic.ca/~gkblank/wordiness.html

adam showed me this cartoon and it had me laughing aloud for a good five minutes.

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/floor_tiles.png

http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/11/27/061127ta_talk_surowiecki
...In recent years, as politicians have tried to deal with high gas prices, concerns about global warming, and America’s dependence on OPEC, a new savior has been found: ethanol ( Read more... )

And if there is truth in what has preceded, he will be wedded to an image of pleasure which is thrice removed as to truth from the pleasure of the oligarch ( Read more... )