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• Shree, thank you for telling Emily that she's taken the wrong approach to HER OWN EXPERIENCE. The internet truly is a wonderful thing.
  in Friend Request
  Sunday February 05, 2012, 12:02 AM
• I just giggled like crazy at that. This may mean I'm a big nerd.
  in And Illustrated ... by Crook
  Sunday January 01, 2012, 04:01 PM
• This was fascinating. Only thing that worries me is how much that Ender Wiggin kid enjoys the game...
  in Gaming Back to Health
  Saturday October 08, 2011, 04:10 PM
• Paul from NY, that was pretty...odd, really. But it mentioned Ayn Rand, so I now have an excuse to post one of my favorite quotations: " There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs." --John Rogers
  in "Hot Coffee"
  Sunday July 10, 2011, 11:07 PM
• And a followup, stolen gleefully from another commenter at that TOTN story I mention below: Stephen Fry on why pedantic nitpicking of usage is NOT "defense of the language": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7E-aoXLZGY
  in Mike Vuolo and the Lexicon Valley
  Sunday July 10, 2011, 06:07 PM
• Thank you for a nice corrective to Talk of the Nation's "Grammar Girl" piece earlier this week (http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=137657833), which mostly suggested that usage and grammar are fixed, immutable, and quite probably a matter of moral concern.
  in Mike Vuolo and the Lexicon Valley
  Sunday July 10, 2011, 06:07 PM
• Charles suggests that we check out "Walter Olson and Ted Frank, contributors to the popular overlawyered.com blog" for a credible alternative. OK, so I did. Walter Olson is a senior fellow of the Koch Bros.-funded Cato Institute, which seeks to remove as many limits on corporations as possible. Ted Frank is a corporate attorney and former fellow of the Koch-funded American Enterprise Institute. Golly, I'm sure they have everyday Americans' best interests in mind. Nice, however, to see an example of Astroturfing pop up right here in the comments.
  in "Hot Coffee"
  Sunday July 10, 2011, 05:07 PM