Tuesday, August 01, 2006
In Which I Offend An Entire Class (08:12 PM) - A member of the Dartmouth class of 1986 read this post—where I had the poor form to refer to “the game of 86’ing words”—and alighted on my inbox:Gee Joe, I’m surprised you’d dare use such a construction. As a member…
A Photo of a Frigid Steel Train Skating Across Siberia (07:39 PM) -
Smooth Transition (02:31 PM) - Scott Ott: “Carter Downplays Castro Succession Rumors”…
Who’s Smarter: Limbaugh Listeners or NPR Listeners? (02:03 PM) - The answer is Rush Limbaugh listeners, by, according to the Pew Research Center, nine percentage points. That, and many more interesting media statistics, at the just-released Pew news survey. The link goes directly to the audience segments page….
Wayward Offense, Continued (11:59 AM) - Extending this post, in which I link to some wonderful analyses of purportedly offensive words, a reader writes:I am sure it has not escaped your notice that Dartmouth’s “Dean of First-Year Students” and “Dean of Upperclass Students” could not possibly…
The Security Council Decides to remain seized of the matter (10:28 AM) - This seems to be underreported: Just yesterday, the Security Council stuck Iran with the threat of economic sanctions if it does not halt its factories, which even now are turning natural-found (or bought) uranium into its hellacious, overpure, fissible cousin….
The Note and Its Low Standards (10:12 AM) - Did you hear? Democratic leaders got together and wrote a letter to President Bush. Lots of warm press coverage. They suggested a New Way Forward in the War for Iraq. This New Way is marked primarily by its lack of…
The Suicidally Open-Minded (08:20 AM) - “The purpose of an open mind is to close it, on particular subjects. If you never do — you’ve simply abdicated the responsibility to think,” William F. Buckley wrote somewhere. Representative John Dingell (D-MI) was never apprised of such a…
“Israel Is Losing This War” (08:11 AM) - Bret Stephens is displeased with Israel’s progress in eradicating (No, now “degrading”.) the terrorist outfit Hezbollah….
Slow News Day (06:59 AM) - CNN is shouting: “Key Republican breaks with Bush on Mideast”. It’s Hegel. Chuck Hegel disagrees with the Bush White House on the Middle East. Pardon, but does that really fit the key-blah-breaks-with-blah-on-blah-issue mold? UPDATE: Here is another slow-news-day item, this…
Tales of daring-do, bad and good luck tales (06:41 AM) - For folks of a certain generation, this is one heck of a piece of nostalgia. UPDATE: Andrew Seal, via e-mail, advises that the proper spelling is “derring-do,” and not “daring-do”. The Oxford English Dictionary and Merriam-Webster Unabridged agree with him….