NASA Reveals “Hand Of God”, and a Squirrel, and a Moose

Catch an hour of the Rocky & Bullwinkle show + interviews from people involved in production.

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NASA Reveals “Hand Of God” | JONATHAN TURLEY.

And courtesy of Two Nerdy History Girls another reason that American TV used to be great.

 

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Chris Christie’s Very Bad Day…Psst: He Signed NJ’s Dream Act Bill, Too

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Latest NBC/WSJ poll, net favorability of players in shutdown

The Government Shutdown, Told in Lego – Philip Bump – The Atlantic Wire

The Government Shutdown, Told in Lego – Philip Bump – The Atlantic Wire.

Middle Out Economy political cartoons

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Grammar Nazism vs Creative Writing

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Sherman Alexie, who wrote one of my favorite books, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian,” started a twitter firestorm with his short statement “Grammar cops are rarely good writers. Imagination always disobeys.”

Coming from my background, a technical writer who attended a liberal English program, I find myself conflicted.

One the one hand, I was taught and truly believe that language is so amazing because of its adaptability. There are no set rules given from God on grammar, only arbitrary rules that we decide are such until the point that subversive forces change it. The reason language survives is its necessity and  adaptability. (Note: for a discussion on this, see my blog about one of my favorite words that shouldn’t exist.) And if it didn’t evolve well all of us would write and speak very differently than we do today.

But, I also wrote a…

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Ordering Pizza in the Future

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the ACLU s version of ordering a pizza in the future.
scary !