published, um, author?
My comment got published on a blog post on ESPN! It’s not the most brilliant analysis but I think I got points for being succinct.
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One of these things is, um, exactly like the other
Okay, there’s this Miss Manners column, and this Dear Prudence video. THEY’RE ANSWERING THE SAME QUESTION.
Oh dears.
Anyway. I’m curious how this happened because it smells like plagiarism, though of course some person (if real people actually write into these columns asking for advice, and I have my doubts) could have written into two different advice columns. Curious that they’d both be published the same week, though.
Inarticulate? Obama vs. G.W.
I’m watching last night’s Tonight Show interview between Obama and Leno:
Several comments on the video criticize Obama as inarticulate, likening him to Bush. I can kind of see their point: Obama often says “uh,” “um,” “ah,” and “aaaaaand,” and as Jon Stewart has pointed out, Obama can take some pretty long pauses:
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But here’s the difference I see between the two: I think he’s searching for the right words. But Bush, he just seemed like he was searching for words.
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p.s. go msnbc. you’re not biased AT ALL.
Etiquette
Is it okay to de-friend someone on Facebook if she uses a 15:5 ratio of exclamation points to sentences? No? Okay, then, what is the proper protocol for informing someone that she has exceeded her — nay, THE ENTIRE POPULATION OF FACEBOOK’S — exclamatory quota?