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 8.3.02
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6.3.02
So in other words, Bush wants to promote free trade by imposing tariffs. Just like he wants to protect our liberties by compromising constitutional rights. I'm guessing his 2004 slogan will be "Vote for Bush: It Will Help the Democrats."
But that's exactly their plan. Lay low, so that people forget you exist. Nobody will ever suspect Mongolia. Osama's behind this. We're watching all his likely escape routes -- Pakistan, Iraq, Somalia, the Philippines. But Mongolia? Hardly. So just wait.
5.3.02
While I was sitting there, I managed to get into a hyper-productive mindset somehow. I had the draft of my thesis open, and I was typing away. I was drawing in all kinds of references, from Ayn Rand to the 16th century beaver trade to "Buddy" Karelis to campaign finance reform. I was in such high gear that I couldn't write in a linear fashion. I'd do a paragraph here, then jump somewhere else and sketch out an idea before I lost it. Sometimes I wouldn't even finish sentences, relying on the opening to remind me of what I was going to say while I zipped back a few pages to fill in something else. I'm surprised my writing comes out as coherent as it does, seeing how fragmented my style of creating it is. Brendan once told me that I have a very stream-of-consciousness style, which makes little sense given that the order of my thoughts is very different from the order of my paragraphs. I would have stayed and kept going except that I had to do the dinner dishes, which had been left for me since I had to leave for work right after dinner. So I did that, then went back to my room to work on my thesis. But now it was a chore to drag out any words, and all the analogies and explanations I had thrown down just an hour earlier sounded stupid and inaccurate. So I read some Lévi-Strauss and went to bed.
4.3.02
I'm writing to you as the managing editor of the Maroon News, fully realizing that someone else on your staff is most likely responsible for the error I am about to point out; I know you will pass this along as appropriate. The following phrases appeared in the March 1 Campus Safety Blotter: "A staff member reported their vehicle hit and damaged ..." Pronouns must agree with their subjects in both gender and number. Thus, "a staff member reported (his or her) vehicle ..." Presumably the gender of the person reporting the incident is known, so the correct gender-specific pronoun should be used when the report is published. If the gender of the person is unknown, then use an article rather than a possessive pronoun ("a staff member reported a vehichle ..."). Or better yet, find out the gender of the person reporting the incident, which will allow you to use the appropriate pronoun, and make the statement more precise. The pronoun "their" is a plural pronoun, and may not be used with "a staff member," "a resident, "a visitor," or any other singular subject. Your proofreaders should have caught these errors -- to write them is bad enough; to publish them is an embarrassment for all the world to see and judge. I assume you wish the paper to reflect well on both the student body and the paper's staff, which is why I share this observation with you. For what it's worth, this particular grammatical error can be found everywhere lately -- radio commercials ("Tell a friend about us and put a little sunshine in their day"), television commercials (a specific example escapes me at the moment), and all over the place in print. My theory is that it's an aftermath of politically-correct gender speech -- people are too lazy to write "his or her" in lieu of the now-unacceptable "his" only (regardless of gender), and so have slipped into using the more neutral "their" even when it's absolutely incorrect to do so. It's become so common, most people barely notice it. However, it is still incorrect. Speech and writing are the outermost windows through which everyone views a person's education; that this type of mistake actually makes it into print at an institution like Colgate is simply unaccepable.
Seven hours on the bus, doo-dah, doo-dah. Goatees worn by all from 'Gate, doo-dah, doo-dah. Drove an hour to find food, doo-dah, doo-dah. After 8, D.C. is closed, doo-dah, doo-dah. |
The height of procrastination: I just ran the English spell check on my Spanish essay, and made all the changes it suggested. A sampler: