“On penalty of being fired, wash your hands!”
Who needs to be told that?
Then I wondered why the sign doesn’t just say “will be immediately dismissed”: Read it all
“They Spoke a Dialect of English”
Does Hank the Cowdog understand King James English? (I think he does.)
But never mind Hank for now. Instead, tune in John Erickson’s appeal for “a language that maintains honesty, simplicity, and clarity.”
Consider your own use of the English language. Read it all
SCOTUS: From ArizonaScare to ObamaCare?
ArizonaScare™ — I made that up all by myself. Hmmm. I should go back and insert a trademark sign by that, just for the fun of it. (Hang on a bit while I see if I remember how to do it…)
ArizonaScare™ is my monicker for SB1070 (you know, Arizona’s infamous and/or noble immigration law). Don’t ask me why. 🙂
Might the Supreme Court’s decisions in the Arizona case lead us to correct conclusions about the ObamaCare case? Read it all
Saturday 26.12
A look back at some things I saw online this week.
First of all, though, several of my many Google searches: Read it all
What’s the Opposite of Gay Pride?
I’d been thinking that the opposite of “gay” pride is “straight” humility.
But I just wondered a bit ago if matching up double opposites would have the same effect as a double negative in English.
Thus the opposite of gay pride might be straight pride or gay humility.
Because straight humility might be doubly opposite of gay pride and thus Read it all
“You Abjure, Curse, and Detest”
That’s quite the quote, eh?
The you in it was a very famous person.
And he signed his agreement with the accusation on this day: June 22.
See 1633 below…but let’s not get any further ahead of ourselves! Read it all
Pullicino: “Assisted Death Pathway”
Early this morning I saw this in the UK papers (and Malta’s, I think):
NHS hospitals are using end-of-life care to help elderly patients to die because they are difficult to look after and take up valuable beds, a top doctor has warned.
He talks about removing a “patient from the LCP despite significant resistance.”
Oh, you don’t know about LCP? Read it all