I found this a little silly, both the Op-ed itself and the fact that anyone thought it newsworthy to mention that Obama, like the rest of us, uses informal spoken language from time to time:
Since his election, the president has been roundly criticized by bloggers for using “I” instead of “me” in phrases like “a [...]
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By Staff | December 31, 2008
Just wanted to drop a note of good-will and wish everyone–readers, non-readers, friends, enemies, ect…–a Happy New Year.
The next Modest Proposal issue will drop within the two weeks. We’ve got a jam-packed slab of reviews, essays, original photos, stories, and the like. Expect to have something to read at work.
Keep your head held high in [...]
Also posted in December 2008 |
GoodReads is a fairly excellent social networking site, as far as social networking sites go. It’s much closer to hanging out in an actual bookstore than visiting an online bookstore like Amazon, so that’s nice.
But it has the same faults as any other social network:
How can Twilight be both one of the “Best Books [...]
By James | December 14, 2008
I was in the DC Metropolitan region this weekend visiting my parents, and we decided to take a trip to the Smithsonian’s Museum of Natural History. I hadn’t been there for ages and was pleasantly surprised at what I found.
A lot of the exhibits were the same ones I remember form my childhood, only now [...]
By Kevin | November 24, 2008
Clive Thompson has a fascinating little piece on the interconnection of online content and t-shirts in this month’s Wired magazine. We all know that most of the bottom (i.e. money) dropped out of the internet a while ago. Many sites that once vied for cashflow from online content have since gone extinct. Thompson describes some [...]
By James | November 22, 2008
This is an interesting report. According to the National Intelligence Council, US influence in world affairs will most likely decline in the coming decades. This isn’t terribly earth-shattering; history is rife with examples of failed empires (the Dutch and Portuguese, to name two). I am somewhat surprised that it’s being admitted so [...]
By James | November 6, 2008
I was able to go to bed on time Tuesday night, and go to bed happy. I don’t think an Obama administration is immediately going to fix everything that’s wrong with our country, but I’m confident that it’ll try, and I’m certain that it won’t actively try to make things worse. One couldn’t say the [...]
By Kevin | November 3, 2008
I guess that it’s time for a little preemptive history. Tomorrow is the big day. The reality of George W. Bush leaving the office of President is finally feeling at-hand and incontestable. The general sense across the nation is one of relief, as the very “worst” that could happen is that someone marginally more competent [...]
By Kevin | October 20, 2008
I’m in full Halloween mode. Oct 31 has become a favorite holiday. Despite it being very commercialized (what isn’t these days?) I look forward to it. It is a day of social unrest, youth trooping around in gangs, officially allowed rudeness, and seasonal cuisine. In fact, this month alone has yielded me Pumpkin Pie (which [...]
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By Kevin | October 13, 2008
History isn’t dead, though a politics of and for amnesia has increasingly shown itself to be the name of the game. Outside of that realm of double-think and rabid ideological differences, it is interesting to see who becomes rediscovered, brought back into the discourse after periods of obscurity. Such a person is Noah Webster, the [...]