After reading Eats, Shoots & Leaves, a wonderful book by Lynne Truss (which I heartily recommend to anyone who has more than a passing interest in this funny thing called language), I decided to observe the manor in which people communicate. I agree with her supposition that the internet has changed the way we communicate. She attributes some of ( Read more... )

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But http://www.factcheck.org/ helps. This project of the the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania is both nonprofit and nonpartisan.

I doubt that anyone will contradict me when I say that ESPN has a tremendous amount of power in the realm of cable content providers. As a result, right now they are able to live the capitalist's dream ( Read more... )

The Dante's Inferno Test has banished you to the Sixth Level of Hell - The City of Dis!
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:
LevelScorePurgatory (Repenting Believers)Very LowLevel 1 - Limbo (Virtuous Non-Believers)ModerateLevel 2 (Lustful)ModerateLevel 3 (Gluttonous)ModerateLevel 4 (Prodigal and Avaricious)ModerateLevel 5 (Wrathful and ( Read more... )