April 2010
March 2010
“[T]he current surge of anger — and the accompanying rise in right-wing extremism...”
– Frank Rich: The Rage Is Not About Health Care
Smart journalist is smart. This is a very good read.
“…Democrats just passed the Republican health care reform plan — without a single...”
– daggatt (via azspot) (via robot-heart-politics) (via stfuconservatives) (via frothyparadise)
“so creeped out and confused by the avatar in the audience that has huge sweat...”
– Susan “suzboop” Tenby re: Second Life
“[Railroads] don’t need the government to build them new highways and...”
– Warren Buffett buys a fucking railroad: This man has clearly played Civilization.
“[Former militiaman Mike Vanderboegh] said his call for people to throw bricks is...”
– Former militiaman unapologetic for calls to vandalize offices over health care
“On a related note: The 90s idea that people use the internet as a means to...”
– // carolinemartin: digital mediocrity
(via meaghano)
“If, for example, you were asked to contribute to a cutting-edge investigation...”
– The Observer, on stupidity in British television: July 29, 2001
(for Americans: nonce = pedophile)
Suicided: the Adversative Passive as a Form of... →
inky:
From Language Log.
Creative manipulation of lexical and grammatical constructions is another way to express ideas that are not permitted under the harsh social controls imposed by the government. This is evident from the fact that the “character of the year” in China for 2009 is bèi 被. […]
Lately, it has become fashionable to use the passive voice with verbs that don’t normally allow it...
this shouldnt happen
willzone:
“And so we remember Thursday, March 25, 2010 as the day every English speaking...”
– Jimmy, commenting on Wikimedia Global Outage (cooling failure and DNS)
popculturebrain:
inothernews:
gee, officer...
“SO: WE, THE WRITERS, MUST ASK OURSELVES OF EVERY SCENE THESE THREE QUESTIONS.
...”
– David Mamet’s Master Class Memo to the Writers of The Unit
“It would be very difficult to tote up all the times pundits pronounced the...”
– Gross, on why the political futures markets got health care reform all wrong. (via newsweek)
