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Protected: Students, schools, civil rights, & the f-word
Protected: American courts and government and the f-word
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How Obama raised money in Silicon Valley & using the Net
From Joshua Green’s “The Amazing Money Machine” (The Atlantic: June 2008):
That early fund-raiser [in February 2007] and others like it were important to Obama in several respects. As someone attempting to build a campaign on the fly, he needed money to operate. As someone who dared challenge Hillary Clinton, he needed a considerable amount of [...]
Posted on November 24th, 2008 by Scott Granneman
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How technologies have changed politics, & how Obama uses tech
From Marc Ambinder’s “HisSpace” (The Atlantic: June 2008):
Improvements to the printing press helped Andrew Jackson form and organize the Democratic Party, and he courted newspaper editors and publishers, some of whom became members of his Cabinet, with a zeal then unknown among political leaders. But the postal service, which was coming into its own as [...]
Posted on October 6th, 2008 by Scott Granneman
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Our reasons for giving reasons
From Malcolm Gladwell’s “Here’s Why: A sociologist offers an anatomy of explanations“:
In “Why?â€Â, the Columbia University scholar Charles Tilly sets out to make sense of our reasons for giving reasons. …
In Tilly’s view, we rely on four general categories of reasons. The first is what he calls conventionsâ€â€conventionally accepted explanations. Tilly would call “Don’t be [...]
Posted on April 24th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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The spirit of the real Texas Rangers
I rather like this, even if it’s probably not true:
The story goes that Captain Jack Hayes and his men, the fabled Texas Rangers, were surrounded and vastly outnumbered during one of the many skirmishes of the Mexican War. He made the following prayer, certainly one of the most colorful ever made before battle: “Oh Lord, [...]
Posted on November 27th, 2005 by Scott Granneman
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Word of the day: aposiopesis
Today’s word: aposiopesis: ap.o.si.o.pe.sis n., pl. -ses [Lat. <Gk. aposiopesis <aposiopan, to become silent: apo- (intensive) + siopan, to be silent <siope, silence] A sudden breaking off of a thought in the middle of a sentence, as though the speaker were unwilling or unable to continue.
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