Link via cat63

A cruise to commemorate the sinking of the titanic.

No, really.

Would that edition be an English grammar and usage text, by any chance?

From the blog of a self-described shaman, which I'm not linking here because of fantastically NSFW content, and because the whole thing (which includes, literally, a description of curing someone's mental retardation via a hand job) smells like a publicity stunt to sell his book:

(2008/08/12):
> As someone who grew up in traditional Shamanism from ( Read more... )

If there's one thing I can't stand, it's blatent ignorance.

Please tell me this person is NOT a copy editor.

"12 Jun 2008, Global - The St. Louis E-Mail Server is down. The IT Messaging team is working the problem. No estimated time of recovery."

Immediately above it appears a link that reads "Email This Page to a Colleage". Want to guess how well that'll work out for all of us at the St. Louis site?

Subjective? You wish!

Comment and response found on this blog entry on Huffington Post:

Highly educated older voters are for Obama as well. It is the poorly educated older voters who support Clinton and who are highly suspicious of Obama and his youthful supporters. Young people should not be so worried about them.

your dillusional ( Read more... )

Lee Siegel’s “Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob,” ... inveighs against the Internet for encouraging solipsism, debased discourse and arrant commercialization. Mr. Siegel, one might remember, was suspended by The New Republic for using a fake online persona in order to trash critics of his blog (“you couldn’t tie ( Read more... )

Recently, the New York Times published an op-ed piece where the columnist suggested 16-year-olds be given the right to vote. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/06/opinion/06kamenetz.htmlRead more... )