http://www.democraticunderground.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sat, 25 May 2013 17:33:23 Sat, 25 May 2013 17:33:23 [div class="excerpt"]Although I live in New York City ...[/div]
New York City!?! :rofl:

And I hate to say it, but based on the horrible logic portrayed in the rest I must conclude that, since she is in New York City, somewhere in Arizona a village is missing its idiot.



[div class="excerp... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/fishwax/77 Tue, 27 Apr 2010 12:49:27 Just about every person has their own pet grammar peeve. Some like to gleefully scold others for grammar mistakes, as though an occasional bit of informal English were simply too much for civilized society to put up with. Some see changes in the language as evidence that the very fabric of society i... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/fishwax/74 Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:02:53 The use of "I feel badly" is not a modern corruption of the adverb, so much as a residual usage of an adjective that is no longer used in as many different situations as it once was. But badly (like poorly) was long an adjective meaning ill or unhealthy, and people used to use it with verbs other th... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/fishwax/73 Tue, 16 Feb 2010 13:42:16 If you're talking about a specific El Camino, it would be incorrect to not say "El Camino" instead of "the El Camino." Yes "el" means "the," but "el" isn't an article in English, so it makes no sense to drop the "the" just because of a redundancy: "El Camino was stopped at the light when another dri... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/fishwax/72 Mon, 15 Feb 2010 18:21:42 [div class="excerpt"]"likely" and "probably" when talking about a person of color, because the reality is that just from their ethnicity you can't know. It's an assumption. I think the analogy works well in that it is based off of someone's ethnicity. The assumption is that someone's color means the... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/fishwax/83 Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:02:35 Earlier this week I posted that the [link:www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7020231|Graduate Employees Organization was going on strike at the University of Illinois] this week. Yesterday was rainy and cold, but there were 700 or so grad students and supporter... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/fishwax/71 Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:33:40 Source: [b]Champaign News-Gazette[/b]

The union representing graduate and teaching assistants at the University of Illinois will go on strike at 8 a.m. Monday.

But the UI said the issue over which the strike was called is an "11th-hour" issue that had not been part of the negotiations until Satu... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/fishwax/70 Sun, 15 Nov 2009 15:01:20 After several months of negotiations (most of it not particularly serious on the part of the university administration) and almost three months of working without a contract, the Graduate Employees Organization (which represents Graduate Assistants and Teaching Assistants at the University of Illino... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/fishwax/69 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:59:00 I posted [link:www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6668993|here] about how this mysterious “American Police Force” outfit is more likely a scam than a front group for Blackwater. They plagiarize a Blackwater website, sure, but they’ve also apparently plagiarized... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/fishwax/66 Thu, 01 Oct 2009 11:17:36 There has been a lot of discussion on various blogs (including here on DU) about AP news reports that a mysterious company called "American Police Force" has contracted with the Two Rivers Authority in Hardin, Montana to take over their empty prison (and/or take over policing duties for the town of ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/fishwax/65 Wed, 30 Sep 2009 22:55:32 There were a few games (and one sucker punch, below) on Thursday, but that's just a warm-up.

Now opening Saturday is finally here! :woohoo:

The two biggest matchups are Alabama and Virginia Tech (in Atlanta) and Georgia at Oklahoma State.

My team, the Oklahoma Sooners, take on BYU later t... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/fishwax/64 Sat, 05 Sep 2009 11:57:30 It is no credit to acknowledge that racism, racial profiling, discrimination, etc. exist [i]in general[/i] if every time a [i]specific[/i] example comes up one's immediate response is to argue that people of color are simply wrong in identifying that as an example.

[i]"Every day, minorities are ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/fishwax/63 Sun, 26 Jul 2009 18:05:35 I finished it earlier this evening. I didn't enjoy it, I'll admit--but I'm curious what others here who have read it may think of it ...... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/fishwax/62 Sun, 07 Jun 2009 01:36:04 No real surprises here, but an interesting visual.

[b]Obama's speech:[/b]
http://wwwimage.cbsnews.com/images/2009/05/21/image5031109.gif

[b]Cheney's speech: [/b]
http://wwwimage.cbsnews.com/images/2009/05/21/image5031150.gif

Here's a link to the CBS story: http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/fishwax/60 Fri, 22 May 2009 01:06:55 Source: [b]Associated Press[/b]

Board advocates dumping UND nickname, logo

By DALE WETZEL – 3 hours ago

DICKINSON, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota's Board of Higher Education has agreed to drop the University of North Dakota's Fighting Sioux nickname and Indian head logo, a move intended to resolve ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/fishwax/59 Thu, 14 May 2009 22:47:02 The arguments against it don't really hold water. The one I usually hear is that "than" should only be used with comparatives, but while it's true that it is primarily used after comparatives, that has never been the only way that it's been used. "Different than" has been used for centuries and by s... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/fishwax/49 Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:02:17 If the act of *not identifying* with your marginalized racial identity won't get rid of any disadvantages, then what's the point? An oppressed minority would sacrifice a great deal by renouncing the advantages of community, and yet doing so wouldn't rid them of any of the disadvantages of navigating... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/fishwax/61 Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:06:33 world hurling champions, for instance, who in the U.S. could argue ;)... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/fishwax/47 Sun, 01 Feb 2009 22:32:39 sometimes they do a good job. The recent remake of Get Smart wasn't bad. The two Brady Bunch movies are absolute classics. The Fugitive and Maverick in the early 90s were both good. Even back in the 80s you had The Untouchables and The Naked Gun.

Remakes and adaptations have been a part of film-... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/fishwax/55 Sat, 10 Jan 2009 13:35:33 However, the use of "me" is much more likely to draw objection than is the use of "I," so in formal writing it would be probably be advisable to use the latter.

The distinction hinges on whether one treats "than" as a conjunction (in which case a verb is required both before and after, and there... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/fishwax/44 Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:59:51 ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/fishwax/43 Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:22:52 72 hours until "That One" is declared president elect.

72 hours until the home state of Jesse Helms turns blue.

72 hours until the former congressional seat of Dick Cheney is awarded to a Democrat.

72 hours until our long national nightmare is over.

72 hours. ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/fishwax/42 Sun, 02 Nov 2008 00:56:40 Hopefully has been around as a sentence adverb for around three hundred years. People complaining about the use of hopefully as a sentence adverb have only been around for about forty :).

For whatever reason, there is almost never any complaint about other sentences adverbs. "Thankfully, it isn'... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/fishwax/54 Wed, 17 Sep 2008 15:24:29 At long last, it’s that time of year again :woohoo:

Of course, there are always a lot of blowouts this time of year, with highly-ranked, major conference teams buying sparring partners from small directional schools. I wonder which will be the biggest blowout: top-ranked Georgia plays Georgia So... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/fishwax/40 Sat, 30 Aug 2008 11:51:40 The first games of the season kick off on Thursday, with a couple more games on Friday, and then a full slate on Saturday. :woohoo:

So what team are you pulling for, and how do you think they'll do this year?

http://graphics.fansonly.com/photos/schools/okla/sports/m-footbl/auto_wide/1575294.j... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/fishwax/39 Sat, 23 Aug 2008 11:18:13