Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was a hero, “a symbol of freedom and the durability of the human spirit,” as his obit in today’s Post has it. But let’s face it, readers, he was not a very good writer.
Did you ever actually try to read The Gulag Archipelago? It’s like being trapped down at the end [...]
An article in today’s Washington Post says that the Commonwealth of Virginia, traditionally a bastion of conservatism, has become a “swing state.”
Virginia hasn’t voted for a Democratic presidential candidate since 1964, and President Bush carried the state twice, by nine and eight points. But the campaigns of Obama and his Republican opponent, Sen. John McCain, [...]
K-Lo is just stuck on stupid, readers:
If Obama could go to Germany and give a speech in English and be not only understood but well-received, why does he say we all need to learn another language?
My guess is that K-Lo would rather not have learned any language at all, but her parents wouldn’t stop talking [...]
The worst sample of written English ever, courtesy of K-Lo at The Corner [emphasis mine]:
McCain may not rally a crowd, but there’s there there that could plausibly be commander-in-chief of a nation at war (really, we are, remember? It’s not just over there.).
Has anyone ever produced a worse sentence while attempting to write English?
Mark Noonan, phonin’ it in on a lazy Wednesday afternoon:
They go on to say that 90% of the world’s glaciers are shrinking - which sounds like a made-up stat simply because most glaciers are in pretty inaccessible areas and thus can’t be measured
[Note: actually, one scientist is quoted as saying that "as many as [...]
Mitt Romney is disingenuous, readers. Here’s what he said in response to Barack Obama’s statement that American kids would benefit from learning languages:
Just last week the onetime Republican presidential hopeful said Obama “looks toward Europe for a lot of his inspiration” after the Illinois senator suggested Americans would benefit from knowing more languages.
“I think [...]
You think you’ve heard it all, readers. Then President Bush manages to surprise you again:
The American leader, who has been condemned throughout his presidency for failing to tackle climate change, ended a private meeting [at the G8 Summit in Toyako, Japan] with the words: “Goodbye from the world’s biggest polluter.”
He then punched the air [...]
My new hero is L.F. Eason III of Raleigh, NC, a man of principle who opted to retire from his job at the NC State Department of Agriculture rather than have the flags at his research facility lowered to half-mast in honor of the passing of the loathsome ex-Sen. Jesse Helms.
“Regardless of any executive proclamation, [...]
Mark Noonan (of Blogs For Victory) is tickled pink about a Washington Post article that says the US government has found that “hundreds” (out of how many? The article doesn’t say) of “insurgents, detainees and ordinary people” who’ve been “detained and fingerprinted by the US government in Afghanistan, Iraq and the Horn of Africa” [...]
Just days after the Sunday NYT Magazine published a fawning puff piece on Rush Limbaugh (written, by the way, by a Democrat-bashing dittohead), Rush reminds America just how classy he can be, by insinuating that Hillary Clinton tried to kill Barack Obama.
And there’s this conspiracy theory is that Mrs. Clinton, through Mr. McAuliffe, is gonna [...]
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