Oats, licorice, parsnip, cauliflower, spinach, piglet, and poodle
have each been removed from the latest Oxford Children’s
Dictionary. Encomiums and raucous applause, applause.
However there’s good newspeak and bad newspeak, consistent
with the non-principles of doublespeak — also removed are
the words mistletoe, holly, ivy, carol, manger, disciple, saint,
sin, and devil… hmmmmmm… my life has suddenly been
made easier… who WAS [...]
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Jeers and Applause
Tuesday, December 9th, 2008Posted in Education, Family, freedom, philosophy, politics | No Comments »
Teddy Roosevelt, at the Sorbonne, Paris, 1910
Wednesday, August 20th, 2008It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out
how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds
could have done better.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena,
whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who
strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and [...]
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