Continuing from last Wednesday, here’s a reprise of the fourth installment of Our Flabby Language. (Two more to follow, on succeeding
Wednesdays.)
Our Flabby Language III (Redux)
Continuing from last Wednesday, here’s a reprise of the third installment of Our Flabby Language. (Three more to follow, on Wednesdays.) This installment: Holy Macro! through Muscular.
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As promised last week, here’s a reprise of the second installment of Our Flabby Language. (Four more to follow, on Wednesdays.)
Read the Rest!Our Flabby Language I (Redux)
Since I posted installments VII and VIII of Our Flabby Language, I’ve had some interest expressed in the first six. So—because I’m accommodating (and lazy)—beginning today, I’ll repost them on Wednesdays.
Read the Rest!Black Patriots–A Promise Unkept
After my first post in the last series, 8 Shameful Things Our Founders Believed, I heard from an old friend, Maurice Barboza. We worked together on the staff of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee in the ‘70s, after which I moved to the Senate side and left D.C. to return to my Northwestern roots.
Read the Rest!Write In “Sam’l. L. Clemens”
We interrupt this skein of seriousness to advise that–despite the estimated $2+ billion that will be spent this campaign season on advertising, the content of which is the intellectual equivalent of a slap fight at third grade recess–Mr. Twain reminds us that not all that much has changed in a century, at least in terms of content.
Read the Rest!Our Flabby Language VIII
Picking up from where we left off in Monday’s post, more minor outrages from yours truly.
Read the Rest!Eugene & Barbara: Of, By & For the People
Being a student of American affairs, I had much to choose from in fashioning a suitable Labor Day remembrance—one that pays heed to both the history of and hope for working people, the skeleton, muscle, and sinew of our forward march.
Read the Rest!God Save the C.T.A.
As we prepare to observe the national holiday honoring the roles working men, women, and children have played in building our nation—which too many of us will spend doing everything but that—I’d like to offer a little prayer.
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