Christopher Hitchens has a blistering diatribe in yesterday’s Slate on the subject of Michael Moore’s latest effort.
I have already said that Moore’s film has the staunch courage to mock Bush for his verbal infelicity. Yet it’s much, much braver than that. From Fahrenheit 9/11 you can glean even more astounding and hidden disclosures, such as […]
Posted on June 22nd, 2004 by Nils
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I’ve been keeping an Amazon.com package unopened for about a week because I thought it was a Fathers’ Day gift from Araceli. Today I opened it. It was an item from my wish list, but it was not from my wife. Some nice person in San Francisco, whose name does not ring a bell, decided […]
Posted on June 20th, 2004 by Nils
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It’s about time to go to the polls again in my town, and the mudslinging by direct mail is reminding me of the pig races at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. Somehow, electing government officials never amounts to the stirring, patriotic experience that your momma said it was, does it?
Posted on June 18th, 2004 by Nils
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I just added two entries to my archive of linguistic curiosities. The list of autonyms now includes ‘trochee,’ and the list of contranyms, ‘iamb.’
Posted on June 14th, 2004 by Nils
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