I want to be clear from the beginning that someone who is behaving this way may not take kindly to any attempt to address it, even the most friendly, mild, benefit-of-the-doubt-assuming inquiry might get a pretty harsh backlash and it may not be able ...
After a while I clicked on the status link and saw a message that said, “Delayed – No Action Needed.” A bit below that was the message, “Prescription out of stock, more is on the way.” A bit later I called the store to talk with someone about when the prescription might be ...
I’ve always said that in person I’ll call anyone by the pronoun they wish to be called, and I intend to abide by this as a simple matter of civility. But I’m not sure I’d do that when talking about someone who uses a “neopronoun” when they’re not present, because some o...
ProPublica said it had two stories of women who died after being unable to get an abortion during a miscarriage. This is the second one. Candace Fails screamed for someone in the Texas hospital to help her pregnant daughter. “Do something,” she pleaded, on the morning of Oct. 29, 2023...
According toSwan, Sinatra despised racial prejudice and was quick to put a stop to it. Sinatra said: “When I was a kid and someone called me a ‘dirty little Guinea’, there was only one thing to do – break his head…Let anyone yell wop or Jew or nigger around us, we taught him...
How can such a vague “estimate” be disproven when there is absolutely no indication of where it came from or why someone thought it seemed accurate? Can we all invent statistics whenever we want and get away with it by calling them “estimates”? And frankly, is it not obvious why it...
At that meeting, the Chair will ask for someone to second your motion. You might want to ask someone to do this in advance. Then you will speak in favour of your motion, explaining why you want people to vote for it. You might want to prepare a few points in advance. You could...
Taylor, we don’t yet know enough of the real facts to reach any conclusions about the motives and credibility of someone who claims, inter alia, that Israel was behind the 9/11 attack and that Israel told 4,000 Jews not to show up at the World Trade Center that day. A second ...
In order to be good editors, we must learn to recognize when a writer is intentionally deviating from Oxford/Cambridge English. We must learn the correct way to edit different dialects, or find someone else who is better equipped to work with that writer.” The problem is, of course, that...
As her rivals seek to paint her as a moderate, a flip-flopper or an establishment figure beholden to donors, Nikki Haley has drawn from her time in South Carolina to portray herself as someone with a tea party background who speaks “hard truths” and ta