Grammar Girl : Who Versus That :: Quick and Dirty Tips ™ Today’s topic is who versus that. Lesley called in with this question: My pet peeve is who versus that, as in “You know Bob, he’s the guy that … Continue reading
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Classical Values » A forbidden but common word that has become far too powerful The temptation for mischief posed by the N-word is simply unbelievable. Despite its forbidden nature, that there is no way to avoid this word. Being in … Continue reading
Althouse: “Together, these weaknesses led to the biggest Obamacare derp storm of the year.” Duh” was big in the 1960s, by the way, when it was a shortened form of the original — do you remember? I remember! — “uh … Continue reading
People who write “tow the line,” when they mean “toe the line.” What bothers me most, though, is that just because a bunch of ignorant dumbasses who don’t know any better have begun to use the incorrect phrase, it will … Continue reading
much younger and in better shape than the one I currently occupy. This was one of my favorite comedy albums. Some of you may know of them, I suspect that Bill will. Ignore the political overtones and listen to the … Continue reading
Instapundit » Blog Archive » POINTS AND FIGURES: The Secret No One is Talking About Buried In Obamacare. Obamacare is a total… So many layers of disaster here. It’s like peeling an onion of fail. One of the better lines … Continue reading
On Bob Costas’ sudden, 30-year-late pronouncement that “redskin” is a “slur” | protein wisdom But that aside, TheRightScoop highlights and interesting article out of U Penn about the origins of the term “redskin.” Which, it turns out, was a way … Continue reading
Pennsylvania School Officials Resign After Bizarre Racist Text-Message Scandal : The Other McCain Superintendent Richard Como has retired and Director of Athletics and Activities Jim Donato has resigned after the school officials in Coatesville, Pennsylvania, were caught exchanging grossly obscene … Continue reading
Opposing #DefundObamacare out of Fear | RedState The worst part of this tact and the tactic pushed by the people tweeting above… This is the second time in two days I’ve seen this particular mis-usage. Look, people, the word you’re … Continue reading
Rearrange the letters 2 | haha.nu Got any more? … Continue reading
About that “moderate” new Iranian president « Sister Toldjah Sister Toldjah PS: Michael Ledeen has written a great book on the difficulty the West has calling evil for what it is and facing it directly until great damage has been … Continue reading
» Sometimes I feel like a Founding Fatherless child – Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion Now they’re not men, just Founding Founders. Via Charles Cooke at NRO: The White House has today put up a link to a new government website that collates … Continue reading
Battlestar Galactica Actress Tweets About Gun Safety, Loses Half Her Twitter Followers – Hit & Run : Reason.com Earlier today actress Katee Sackhoff—who played the gun-toting, tough-talking gender-bent Starbuck on Battlestar Galactica—tweeted about an incident in which a 4-year-old boy … Continue reading
More Quickscript Stuff | Questions and Observations Because I am a genius in things that don’t matter. That’s the best kind, Dale. … Continue reading
Instapundit » Blog Archive » IMPEACH JOE BIDEN: Biden’s office forces reporter to delete photos. They apologized after the fa… IMPEACH JOE BIDEN: Biden’s office forces reporter to delete photos. They apologized after the fact. The reporter should also apologize … Continue reading
Instapundit » Blog Archive » OBAMA, OUT OF THE CLOSET: “It has been amusing, in a black-humor sort of way, to see various media … Nonsense. “I told you so” is the chief source of pleasure in the blogosphere. Especially … Continue reading
Classical Values » I learn something every day And while I never heard of such a thing before, I now know that (at least according to Wikipedia) there is a term called “Microrape”: Characterized by predatory non-physical prurient communications with … Continue reading
The DiploMad 2.0 In other words, instead of talking about the economy and the crazy government policies ruining it, we talk about guns. Yes, guns. Every liberal politician from Obama to Biden, Cuomo, Emanuel, Bloomberg, Villaraigosa, Brown, etc., and news … Continue reading
The curse of right-wing textualism | protein wisdom To argue that it “doesn’t matter a lick what Congress thought it was doing when it passed the law” is to argue that it isn’t Congress that writes and passes the laws … Continue reading
Classical Values » Single question with multiple answers Even if it includes divorced women, “single mom” invokes the image of a woman raising children on her own without help from a husband. Yet there is a huge difference between a … Continue reading
English is a Scandinavian language? Here’s the most interesting adventure in linguistics I’ve run across in a while. Two professors in Norway assert that English is a Scandinavian language, a North Germanic rather than a West Germanic one. More specifically, … Continue reading
Fifty Shades of Wéi (?): Pronunciation | Popehat 5. Tones: In addition to having an optional initial and a mandatory final, each syllable in Mandarin (by which I mean the 404 that actually occur) may be pronounced in one of … Continue reading
Chicago: Pro-Israel ads “spark outrage” from WGN’s Dan Ponce, who shamelessly shills for Hamas-CAIR – Atlas Shrugs Urban Dictionary: Ponce Term originated in the UK and came to prominence in the 1960’s, initially to describe a pimp. … Continue reading
R-Rated Internet Writing Lesson. Hey, Y R U Not Paying Attention? @ AMERICAN DIGEST Strong language warning, but it’s all in a good cause. Besides, you probably need this or know someone who does. Whew. Somehow I can’t see my … Continue reading
dustbury.com » At the end of the day, it is what it is nn thinks that “people talking in catch-phrases” is yet another sign that the culture is on its way to decadence and eventual desuetude: We all do it … Continue reading
The Uses of Sixties Slang @ AMERICAN DIGEST Long ago when the Web was the Net and Social Media was Usenet, I spent some years at a watering hole called The Well. From my own personal collection of lists made … Continue reading
Sherrod Brown | Niggardly | Veteran Spending | The Daily Caller Um, so fucking what? … Continue reading
A Little Help For Bill Quick : The Other McCain If everything is raaaaacist, nothing is raaaaacist. Huh. Apparently Smitty has lost his ability to read for comprehension. Sad. … Continue reading
If Obama embraces misogyny, then so should we all [Reader Post] | Flopping Aces So there it is, clear as day. The new decency standards. If you’re a conservative commentator, call a woman a “slut”, you need to apologize and … Continue reading
Got Slut? The Left Launches a Coordinated Attack Against Rush Limbaugh • In response, Rush announced he was waiting for Bill Clinton to call Sandra Fluke to see if she is okay. Actually, take a look at her, the dark … Continue reading
Vodkapundit » A Scotsman Buys an iPhone 4S… I had to save this for the weekend, because the language is so not safe for work. Probably work better if the Scots spoke an actual language rather than something that sounds … Continue reading
Wonkbook: Payroll tax shenanigans, plus the most important regulation you’ve never heard of – The Washington Post The move sets up the latest game of brinkmanship on Capitol Hill, in which a failure by lawmakers to pass a deal before … Continue reading