Yes, I can be a real dick. But comments by others suggest that I’m a dick at times when I’m wholly unaware of it. Upon much reflection, here are the most likely contributing effects: When I’m a dick by completely and callously trampling everything you believe and hold dear: That’s largely the False Consensus Effect. [...] Read more »
I suppose “Strunk and White’s ‘Elements of Style’” would be “S&W:EoS”
Has anyone read Dom Segolla’s 140 Characters: A Style Guide for the Short Form? From the back cover, apparently: What Strunk and White’s Elements of Style did for traditional media, 140 Characters does for the social media revolution happening today. This is a bold claim indeed. Alternate post title: “Je n’ai fait celle-ci plus longue [...] Read more »
Vedder Tuesday ⅩⅣ
These lyrics were written near the end of the Clinton years, in response to the WTO protests in Pearl Jam’s home, Seattle. Remember that? Remember those? Remember, before Bush Ⅱ, when the scale of world conflict was muted enough that trade imbalances made front page news? Bush has come, Bush is gone. And gods did [...] Read more »
Abuse of authority and endorsement of religion at California public school
I’m calling on my fellow secularists, atheists, and, indeed, all those who care about the U.S. Constitution and how non-Christians are treated in the United States. The principal at Emperor Elementary school in Temple City, California, USA — Kathy Perini — is fiercely Christian. In the teachers’ areas of the school, she has religious messages [...] Read more »
My recycled Tweets for 2009-12-03
Aha! The reason #KGmailNotifier is not alerting me to new emails is that it's NOT RUNNING! That's an acceptable excuse, I feel. # #npr.org top emailed stories: Northern Calif. #marijuana sales boosting revenue and whether sandwich triangles or squares are better. [sigh] # #NPR's #AllSongsConsidered: best albums of 2009? Write-ins OK, but #PearlJam is on [...] Read more »
… but not tonight
Dick Gorden’s show tonight had a (truly heroic) woman on who spent time infiltrating white supremacist groups. There is a long, long post in here for me, that I just don’t have in me tonight, largely because it would have to address this post at length, which I basically got tired of arguing at the [...] Read more »
Subscribe by email
Recent Comments