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May 15, 2008

Best. Review. Ever.

Really.
Matt Taibbi on Thomas Friedman’s The World is Flat from an old issue of the New York Press.
On an ideological level, Friedman’s new book is the worst, most boring kind of middlebrow horseshit.
And this:
On page 174, Friedman is describing a flight he took on Southwest Airlines from Baltimore to Hartford, Connecticut. (Friedman never […]

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May 14, 2008

Those Not Ready for College

This is a great read.

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May 2, 2008

Air Force Linguistics

Interesting article in April’s Armed Forces Journal.
Lt. Col. Edith A Disler, an associate professor of English and deputy head of the Department of English at the Air Force Academy, argues that the Air Force is attempting to reassert its masculinity through language.
Essentially, she argues that two prominent, rather recent linguistic changes or additions have […]

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