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Thursday, March 5, 2009
on the virtue of being real
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S.L. just drew my attention to this story (Warning: Some unedifying stuff) : http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/03/realvirtuality.html...
rush to judgment
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In the latest Imprimis (containing an address he gave in December), and apparently again at last week's Conservative Political Action C...
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
liberals, "liberals," and Liberals
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Some words are so horribly ambiguous that they become meaningless, or nearly so. When such a word is also extremely useful, however, it may ...
tangential remark on "feeling bad?"
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By the way, it is not always appropriate to correct others' grammar. Hypothetically, if my wife had misused the word "good" as...
feeling bad?
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It is surprising how often the word "good" is misused. At least once a week some student says, "Mr. Lee, I don't feel goo...
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
the drug starts to wear off
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Here's Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit: DAVID BROOKS: This is not the Barack Obama I thought I knew. Actually, it’s the same Obama it alw...
what's wrong with voters under 30
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Insightful comment from user Amor de Cosmos on the Contentions blog over at Commentary : We tend to forget that there is a generation of vo...
how to subscribe to this blog or any other
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fairness differs from mercy
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Having condemned Toni Morrison's new novel, her views of language-as-oppression, and the critics' sycophancy, I want to add a qualif...
question: when is a critic not a critic?
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Answer: When he's a cheerleader. Here are some excerpts from what the "critics" have had to say about A Mercy --taken from the...
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