Watching
Bernie. Proud to also be a graying, angry old Jew. In a year or two,
Alan Arkin will be old enough to play him in a biopic.
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OK,
not only is it (my "I'm a curmudgeonly has-been spewing bile" letter to
the editor) in the current print issue of Mountain XPress, pages 8-9,
but here it is online now, too.
"Alliterative and proud, Carolina Public Press says it's 'In-Depth, Investigative and Independent.'"
mountainx.com
boatrocker
22 hours ago
I think Mr. Tell has nailed it- don’t take much Asheville local new seriously. News in general for that matter, though that does beg the question of where an informed citizen gets his objective facts from.
If the angry right-wing retiree Citizen Times/Walt Kowalski crowd claims the Mtn X 1), does not publish hard news and 2) is some sort of Karl Marx like publication as has often been said, then how is local news controlled by the left?
In a recent comment on the Commentosphere here, an editor said in so many words (paraphrasing), ‘no, we are a community based mag that leaves repeated local news stories to other publications’. More than fair enough. Therefore, how are they warping the minds of our children by doing, uh, lefty stuff?
What is lefty stuff?
Hah- no, forget I said that. Lefty stuff is anything other than polishing your guns. If by scandal you mean McCrory, yes, bring on the scandal articles. I haven’t had this much fun reading local news since Bobby Medford, that poor misunderstood and tortured soul.
I do miss the actual multi page insert in the Mtn X when the Disclaimer lampooned just about everything before being whittled down to a single page.
Now when I want satire, I just mush a piece of Silly Putty on either Mtn X or ACT photographs and stretch them out such that they look funny.
I look forward to future newsiness from Mr. Tell.
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NPR host just said, "Leave a number where we can reach you at."
THAT is an example of a preposition wrongly appearing at the end of a sentence--NOT because it is a preposition in that position, but because it is gratuitous. The sentence is correct, and more concise, saying "Leave a number where we can reach you" OR "Leave a number we can reach you at."
She could also have said, correctly (but more stiltedly--in the manner people use to avoid putting a preposition at the end of a sentence, thinking it's verboten), "Leave a number at which we can reach you."
THAT is an example of a preposition wrongly appearing at the end of a sentence--NOT because it is a preposition in that position, but because it is gratuitous. The sentence is correct, and more concise, saying "Leave a number where we can reach you" OR "Leave a number we can reach you at."
She could also have said, correctly (but more stiltedly--in the manner people use to avoid putting a preposition at the end of a sentence, thinking it's verboten), "Leave a number at which we can reach you."
Then, a (correct) variant of that could be, "Leave a number which (more correctly, "that") we can reach you at."
That's correct, while the first example isn't, because "where" includes the notion of place, whereas "which" does not--so "which (that) ... at" is not redundant. E.g., as also "Where are you at?" and "Where are you?" are incorrect/correct, for the same reason.
That's correct, while the first example isn't, because "where" includes the notion of place, whereas "which" does not--so "which (that) ... at" is not redundant. E.g., as also "Where are you at?" and "Where are you?" are incorrect/correct, for the same reason.
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(The "model-mugging" is classic.)
Apologists for, deniers of the plagiarism--classic. Literally. They're relying on the "100 monkeys typing for 100 million years, one will eventually produce the complete works of Shakespeare" argument. Melania just hit that "random string of words and letters same as Michelle's" moment. Somewhere in political speechwriter heaven, a monkey is very proud.
Apologists for, deniers of the plagiarism--classic. Literally. They're relying on the "100 monkeys typing for 100 million years, one will eventually produce the complete works of Shakespeare" argument. Melania just hit that "random string of words and letters same as Michelle's" moment. Somewhere in political speechwriter heaven, a monkey is very proud.
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David A Tell shared Los Angeles Times's video.
Too
bad this didn't happen till later in the campaign. Then, the ridicule
might have taken down Trump-Pence, like how Tina Fey's and Amy Poehler's
lampoonings of Sarah Palin sank the McCain campaign in '08.
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Los Angeles Times added a new video: Melania v. Michelle.
Melania
Trump spoke at the RNC Monday night. People quickly pointed out that
parts of her speech appear to have been borrowed from Michelle Obama's
2008 speech at the DNC. http://lat.ms/2a7CdtE
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert added a new video: Melania Trump Did Not Plagiarize Her RNC Speech.
Tonight, in a Late Show exclusive, Melania Trump set the record straight.
WATCH MORE: http://bit.ly/29TG80p
WATCH MORE: http://bit.ly/29TG80p
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Fantasy of Thursday night
Trump, at the podium: "Well. Heh heh. Tremendous, tremendous, honor. ...
"Bing-bong! Bong! I'm telling you I predicted it, but I almost can't believe it! Tremendous ... I wouldn't call it a hoax, I wouldn't. Goof, maybe. Just a big goof. The biggest-ever goof, right?
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Trump, at the podium: "Well. Heh heh. Tremendous, tremendous, honor. ...
"Bing-bong! Bong! I'm telling you I predicted it, but I almost can't believe it! Tremendous ... I wouldn't call it a hoax, I wouldn't. Goof, maybe. Just a big goof. The biggest-ever goof, right?
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Andy Cimino As likely as anything else.
