A reader notes: I’ll be honest. I feel like I overestimated her.
Isn’t that the God’s-honest truth?
It’s hard to think of anyone less impressive than a progressive who turns into a Trump supporter, especially when it’s purely for political gain.
I listened to a Ted Talk the other day that was given by a linguist and university professor of English, whose point was that the language is always changing, and that we shouldn’t be so rigid in our interpretation of others’ speech and writing. As an example, she said that a few hundred years ago, the word “lollygag” meant to make out / kiss.
The problem I have with this is that window stickers like the one shown here is that they simply make you look like an idiot. This isn’t the morphing of language; it’s ignorance, and there’s plenty of that to go around, especially when it comes to political issues like this one.
I heard a television commentator covering a golf tournament describe an errant shot like this: “That ball could have went anywhere.” I’m hoping he got reassigned, perhaps to cage fighting.
While it’s true that the language is always in flux, poor grammar makes it hard for educated people to accept you as one of their own. When I tutor kids in English, I take my responsibilities in this regard quite seriously.
As an advocate of free speech, I have no problem with this display outside the courtroom during the jury’s deliberation on the 34 felony counts of election interference, better known, albeit erroneously, as the “hush-money” case.
And here’s my reaction, also protected under the First Amendment: These people are despicable.
I do note, however, that they were relatively few in number.
Todd: If it makes you feel any better, you’re far from the first, and you won’t be the last.
Trump destroys others’ lives in order to enhance his own. It’s his core strength; it’s what he’s been doing since his childhood. You were just another victim in a very long line.
A reader offers this:
A reader notes: The climate crisis is here, no matter what the paid shills at Fox say.
Fox News is a force to be reckoned with, to be sure. I feel sorry for folks who feel they have “lost their parents” to this source of constant disinformation.
And, of course, I’m just as angry as you that ruining the planet for profit, whether you’re an active participant in Big Oil or simply a consumer of the utter crap that comes from their pawns in the media.
It’s weird that Robert De Niro is getting so much pushback on his anti-Trump comments. Don’t people know that he’s simply saying what the majority of Americans believe in their very hearts?
At left is another high-profile entertainer, making a similar point.
These proponents of sodium-ion batteries ask, Is living off the grid the new norm?
Keep in mind that the justice system is far from finished with these criminals.
The Georgia RICO case against them will be started eventually, and it’s going to be quite the spectacle.
Nobody’s saying you can’t process avocado pits into a replacement for plastic to be used in single-use cutlery, whose market size was $10.58 billion in 2022, and building at 4.8% CAGR.
But I would be stunned to learn that this can be done cost-effectively and at scale, even if you co-locate the plants with the largest guacamole facilities on Earth, most of which are in Mexico.
