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  1. Mar 2016
    1. Googlepedia: Turning InformationBehaviors into Research Skills

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    1. It has nothing to do with correct grammar and syntax, which are of no importance so long as one makes one's meaning clear, or with the avoidance of Americanisms, or with having what is called a "good prose style.

      Everyone seems to ignore this sentence, perhaps because Orwell seems to be a pedant?

    2. when you make a stupid remark its stupidity will be obvious, even to yourself. Political language -- and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists -- is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

      This keys his entire argument.

    1. Linguist Rosina Lippi-Green

      Who also says when you talk about someone's dialect, ["you talkin' 'bout dey mamma's." ]

      "Rosina Lippi-Green (1997), in her provocative book English with an Accent, argues that at this point, attitudes about language (for her, specifically accent, but a wider generalization can be made) remain the last “back door” to discrimination; it is acceptable to judge others on their language— and, as important, to express those judgments—in a way that it is no longer socially acceptable to do with other aspects of identity. Speakers may think that they are."

    2. In their book American English, Walt Wolfram and Natalie Schilling-Estes (1998, 281-84) point out thal Stan

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    3. Sometimes

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    1. erkin story is today somewhat obscure, known primarily among Peterkinscholars.Rarely mentioned in contemporary Southern literature surveys or even in courses focusing onSouthern women’s literature,3having now become

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    1. The G.O.P. establishment may be in a state of meltdown, but this process of exploiting the darkest American undercurrents began with Richard Nixon’s Southern Strategy

      I'd like to see the evidence for this. I know it's common knowledge to think this, but this thinking has always been in this country. It predates Nixon.

    2. Pull the camera back, and Trump can be viewed as part of a deadly serious wave of authoritarians and xenophobes who have come to power in Russia, Poland, and Hungary, and who lead such movements as the National Front, in France, and the Independence Party, in the United Kingdom.

      Yes. An American Le Pen, to be sure.

    1. In an interview with MSNBC during Nancy Reagan’s televised funeral on Friday, Hillary Clinton made horribly inaccurate comments about the Reagan administration’s handling of the AIDS crisis
    1. From my perspective as a fervent supporter of the ruggedly honest and principled Bernie Sanders, Drumpf

      Typical Paglia: claim support for and use it as cover for the very thing you ultimately attack.

    2. Here’s the damn deal, Megyn Kelly—or Kelly Megyn, whatever your name is!…. Go back and report news on Sesame Street!…You hit below the belt, Kelly!…He was the only one up there on that stage with any common sense!… He’s going to be the next president, whether you like it or not.  Get used to it, girl!  Get used to it!”

      That's the logic that showed you Trump was presidential?

    3. nt!

      Exclamation point? Really, Paglia?

    1. The head of the F.B.I. acknowledged on Tuesday that his agency lost a chance to capture data from the iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino attackers when it ordered that his password to the online storage service iCloud be reset shortly after the rampage.

      What an embarrassment. How does this happen?

  2. Feb 2016
    1. Washington will be, once again, consumed with finding elusive bipartisan common ground. There will be no talk of breaking up the banks, free public college tuition, single-payer health care or a trillion-dollar infrastructure investments, either in Clinton’s inaugural address or her initial speech to her first joint session of Congress.

      Yep.

    1. Her husband, Bill Clinton, was famously dubbed America’s “first black president” because of his background, behavior and the admiration he earned from some in the African-American community during his time in office.

      No. That's not why he was called that. Here's why he was called that: http://gettased.blogspot.com/2008_03_01_archive.html

    1. Mr. Christie, 53, took the message as deeply disrespectful and patronizing, questioning why “a 44-year-old” was telling him about his future, said people who described his reaction on the condition of anonymity.

      Real Housewives of the Republican Party. Drama.

    2. Of Mr. Trump, Mr. McConnell has said, “We’ll drop him like a hot rock,” according to his colleagues.

      And good news.

    3. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, has laid out a plan that would have lawmakers break with Mr. Trump explicitly in a general election.

      Good reporting here 'cause it's true and underreported.

    1. The Democrats wanted to keep the issue alive to use it as a wedge against the Republicans and to establish themselves as owners of the Hispanic vote.

      This seems hackish. It seems to me the Democrats have a very clear solution to this issue and would love to put it to rest. The Republicans, however, won't allow it.

    1. Things descended further when Hugh Hewitt, the conservative talk-show host, who for God-knows-what reason was chosen to co-moderate CNN’s debates, decided to focus on religious liberty. Instead of asking about, say, the fact that the three leading candidates on stage had all made gross comments about Islam—with Trump of course calling to ban Muslims from entering the country—Hewitt decided to focus on cupcake-baking Christians whose liberty is apparently being threatened by gay-marriage supporters. It’s bad enough that the entire Republican Party seems to view racism in America as something that happens to white people, and American religious bigotry as something that targets Christians; it’s even worse when CNN’s questions appear to tacitly support the latter assumption.

      Well said.

    1. His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.

      Best sentence in the English language?

    1. what I am saying is that the United States President needs to do what is best for America, without any concern whatsoever for what the Europeans or the Asians or the Mexicans think

      I'm not sure that's not being uncharacteristically short sighted of James. On the surface, such self-centeredness might seem right, but can we extract our interests from "the Europeans or the Asians or the Mexicans?" Isn't it in our interest to be concerned with others?

    2. Trump gets a grossly disproportionate share of the attention, and thus a disproportionate share of the idiot vote. I

      Indeed.

    1. Contra Rupert Murdoch’s assertion about Trump having crossover appeal, Trump is extraordinarily unpopular with independent voters and Democrats.

      Statements like this give me hope.

    1. 42582292.pdf

      How can I change the name of these documents?

    2. Theory Round Table | Hypothesis

      I don't know what this does. It just appeared.

    3. Theory Round Table

      If you're in the reading group, you should be able to toggle (next to the globe above) between Public and our Reading Group.

    4. Marilyn Cooper, "The Ecology of Writing"

      How can I delete this document?

    1. Elections Podcast: A Round Of Candidate Buy/Sell/Hold

      I really do with these included transcripts. I'm not ever going to listen to these; I'd love to read them, though.

    1. Open

      I'm so blown away by the possibilities. I'm trying to now figure out how to blend hypothes.is with Zotero, so I can grab the bibliographic info and store my reading while leaving my annotations behind . . . amazing stuff here.

    1. “The whole point of this bill is to keep us from having different minimum wages in cities across the state.”

      i.e. to keep poor people poor.

    1. “I would just like to apologize to all my fans in Mississippi for my show being canceled tonight due to the state alcohol beverage control saying that my show violates some law out there,” Freedia posted on her Facebook page, announcing that the show would be canceled. “This is some twerkloose bullshit.”

      And racism in Mississippi is alive and well, of course.

    1. The Life of Pablo is starting to feel like a full-scale attack on the very ontology of the album itse

      Of course, but that's very different than the end-of-the-album debate.

    2. We might say that Pablo’s life hasn’t begun, but we might also say that Pablo’s life is currently infinite.

      Yes. It's the evolution of what the album is, what work is in this current network system we inhabit. Why does it ever have to finish?

    1. According to the entrance poll in Nevada, Clinton won black voters 76 percent to 22 percent. To put that in context, Clinton’s margin is only slightly smaller than Barack Obama’s 83 percent to 14 percent win with black voters in the 2008 Nevada caucuses.
    1. We recommend that you have students tag their annotations with a course tag

      So should we use the group function or the tag function? I suppose it depends on whether we want to be public or not?

    2. students map arguments

      How can students "map" these arguments. Is there a way to connect pages overtly?

    3. 9. Annotation as Annotated Bibliography

      I'm going to work this into their research this term as my writers begin their research project. I wonder if there's a way to integrate this with Zotero? I also

    4. users to pre-populate a set of controlled terms

      Yes. This kind of functionality would be helpful indeed.

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    1. “I want you to think about this,” Clinton said, addressing young voters. “It can't be just about what we're going to give to you.

      Smart move.

    1. Gloria Berger has no value to add to any of these discussions, as far as I can tell.

    1. What's Kasich's rationale for staying in?

    2. I’d be surprised if he doesn’t drop out of the race soon.

      What's his argument for staying in?

    3. Democratic Caucuses: Live Cover

      These blogs are so useful.

    1. before students can write a coherent five-paragraph essay

      Someone who thinks that writing five-paragraph essays is a goal has no business being published.

    1. “to be based on its concern for its business model and public brand marketing strategy.”

      And it sounds like this essay is furthering this argument, no?

    2. Apple Sees Value in Privacy Vow
    1. Because the FBI will not hire anyone with a 24-inch purple mohawk, 10-gauge ear piercings, and a tattooed face who demands to smoke weed while working and won't work for less than a half-million dollars a year. But you bet your ass that the Chinese and Russians are hiring similar people with similar demands and have been for many years. It's why we are decades behind in the cyber race.

      Fascinating.

    2. This is the point: "We all know that's impossible."

    1. That’s not to say the party has settled on Rubio

      I don't understand how after Christie publicly exposed what we all knew for years, the party is deciding on him over say Kasich. They know he's gonna get exposed for the lightweight he is.

    1. SEC Primary

      Football so dominates the South it is inextricable from its politics. It's fascinating that the national media has picked up on this.

    1. A "Standard view" opening.

    2. hen you make a stupid remark its stupidity will be obvious, even to yourself.

      which is the gift, right? If we can edit our own work to discover its empty phrases, we can replace the empty language with positive stuff.

    3. It has nothing to do with correct grammar and syntax, which are of no importance so long as one makes one's meaning clear, or with the avoidance of Americanisms, or with having what is called a "good prose style."

      Anyone who construes Orwell as a prescriptivist must deal with this passage.

    1. Object-oriented ontology is often viewed

      You should read Andrew Cole's, "Those Obscure Objects of Desire," for a strong counter point to this "ontology."

    1. lds 16 Point Le

      Rebublicans are nut jobs.

    1. I'm testing this technology out, but to follow up on my previous comment. I like the idea of bringing your mother's view (kind of a "standard view, in fact) here, but I wonder if you couldn't tweak this to where you're writing for a particular reason to your audience. I'm still not sure you've hit that yet, the specific purpose or aim. What do you all think?