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http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/apps/cvp/3.0/swf/cnn_416x234_embed.swf?context=embed&videoId=bestoftv/2010/09/29/ac.asst.da.targets.gay.student.cnn Please watch this interview of Andrew Shirvell, a Michigan attorney general, defending his practice of harassing of a U of MI student using anti-gay slurs, Nazi symbols, and other forms of “free speech.”
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Also, if you read/understand Latin, please backchannel me. You’re my only hope.
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I’m making a list of neologisms and I need your help. Please drop a few in the comment section. What are your favorite? I’m especially interested in neologisms that: > are American in origin> pervert an existing word (like “blamestorming” from “brainstorming”)> elide two existing words (like “frenemy”)> have come into common usage in the
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By now many of you know I am no longer serving as the Director of TheWriter’s Center. I am so grateful to you, the rest of the writingcommunity, the talented staff, and the board for the time I spent inthat position. I learned so much over the last two years and feellike I am coming
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There is a woman in my hometown walking through a house. The house no longer has a roof. I heard it on NPR this morning as I was driving to work. I’d heard within hours of it happening from family and had already seen photos, seen updates on Facebook, been made aware. My town is
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