The Night Circus is Erin Morgenstern’s first novel, published July 3, 2012. I’m reading and writing about it now because it’s the April selection for CapRadio Reads, Capital Public Radio’s book club.
Read the Rest!Our Flabby Language VI (Redux)
And, finally, another look at the sixth installment of Our Flabby Language. (I posted the newer ones, VII and VIII, in September. You can read them here and here.)–EGF
Read the Rest!Teww Sssssaxxy fer Mysssssaaalf (Redux)
Still suffering from campaign fatigue—and increasingly annoyed at Republicans trying to change the “more revenues mandate” subject by concocting a national security “crisis.” Good time to refocus on another persistent social problem related to language: delivery.
Read the Rest!Our Flabby Language V (Redux)
Continuing from last Wednesday, following is a do-over for the fifth installment of Our Flabby Language. (One more to follow, next Wednesday.)
Read the Rest!Our Flabby Language IV (Redux)
Continuing from last Wednesday, here’s a reprise of the fourth installment of Our Flabby Language. (Two more to follow, on succeeding
Wednesdays.)
Is the U.S. Senate Obsolete–II?
Picking up from last Friday: Fixing the filibuster: the “Nuclear Option?” Fun Fact: One historian believes that the filibuster originated, not as a deliberate and cherished bulwark against runaway majoritarianism, but as a mistake.
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.
Read the Rest!Is the U.S. Senate Obsolete–I?
Today begins a two-part analysis of our broken United States Senate.
Read the Rest!Our Flabby Language II (Redux)
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!Six Years–Once–is Enough
A heartfelt “thank you” to the distinguished Senator from Fox News Talking Points for making at once the shortest and indisputably best argument for amending the Constitution’s Article I, Section 2, —and amending or repealing its 22nd Amendment, and tweaking the 20th and 25th, if desired—to award each elected President a single, six-year term.
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