Shall I continue? We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure…
Your Humble Blogger can’t help but notice the timing of today’s announcement. I mean, I am prepared to have coal in my Fitzmas stocking, myself, but there is a strong possibility that the White House Counsel could be very busy…
I’ll plow on, shall I? We hold these truths to be self-evident, that … among these [Rights] are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. Here’s a question for you, Gentle Reader: do these seem reasonable to you? Because it…
Back to the remarkable paragraph, which I don’t know if I’ll ever finish talking about (any more than I’ll ever finish talking about the Binding of Isaac): We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,…
I’m a trifle perplexed by how perplexed Mark Liberman is by Things that are rarely better than they normally are. He quotes Matthew D. LaPlante of the Salt Lake Tribune in an article called Interpreters in high demand in Iraq…
So, we have a couple of different interpretations of self-evident, but I think that in either of them, it is clear (perhaps self-evident) that the authors are about to list some things that he is not going to back up….
While I’m talking about, oh, whatever I’m talking about, I’ll refer back to the national discussion about whether Harriet Miers should be confirmed by the Senate to the Supreme Court of the United States. There was an interesting article by…
Well, and one of the time-wasting internet quizzes (which one are you? I’m the meta one) going around is the Fashion Style Test over at OK Cupid, which is actually quite fun to take, in part because the testmaker has…
One of the things that has been going around the net is Pirates and Emperors, a Chomsky-inspired Schoolhouse Rock style video about how the US is EEEEEEvil. Like a Pirate, see? Or an Emperor. It contains one of the anti-war…
I’m not planning on doing the whole document in such tedious detail, but the opening bits are really chewy. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with…