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Daily Archives: June 23rd, 2007

Yet more bike blogging

Saturday, June 23, 2007

A couple of pictures from our area. This, I believe, was once a tavern atop a hill on Pequot Trail. It burned many years ago, but the walls still stand, awaiting restoration. And, on the Mystic River, an egret (I think it’s an egret) poses.

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Glued to the tube

Saturday, June 23, 2007

One of my pet peeves is restaurants that have television sets visible in the dining area. I have to take care to position myself so I can’t see the tube. I don’t want to watch, yet I continually find myself drawn to watch as if by magnetic force. I don’t watch TV at home, so […]

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More adventures in linguistics

Saturday, June 23, 2007

Speaking of misuse of language (see the previous post), a few weeks back I mentioned that the Oxford English Dictionary was so far holding firm against McDonald’s attempts to redefine the term “McJob“. Here at home, corporate America, in the form of Anheuser Busch in this instance, is finding that Bushco is more accommodating when […]

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Talking lesson from George (Orwell, that is)

Saturday, June 23, 2007

Further proof that Bushco considers Orwell’s 1984 a How-To book. Yesterday, I read this post on Josh Marshall’s site, in which he showcased a comment that noted the fact that the people fighting us in Iraq are now being called Al Qaeda by the media. In this morning’s Times the observation is borne out: The […]

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