http://grammarpolice.net/ {how people are talking about} en-us grammardotpolice@gmail.com 2008-05-07T10:42:17-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://grammarpolice.net/archives/001666.php 1666@http://grammarpolice.net/ Music 2008-05-07T10:42:17-05:00 http://grammarpolice.net/archives/001665.php Amazing. Just as Chuck Todd is telestrating his way through a complicated explanation of how Barack Obama can yet pull out a narrow win in Indiana, MSNBC interrupts him to call it for Hillary Clinton. I've watched this sad scene... 1665@http://grammarpolice.net/ Media 2008-05-07T01:18:34-05:00 http://grammarpolice.net/archives/001664.php I favor MSNBC coverage over all the other cable networks, but I mean it when I say it: Chris Matthews should be required to present three authorizing signatures each and every time he wants to use a sports metaphor. Nevertheless,... 1664@http://grammarpolice.net/ Politics 2008-05-07T00:59:00-05:00 http://grammarpolice.net/archives/001663.php On Day One waded past the garbage out front to ask the Flophouse what we'd like to see the next President do on day one of his administration. Yglesias says the President should commit to global nuclear disarmament. Spencer says... 1663@http://grammarpolice.net/ Politics 2008-05-06T17:47:51-05:00 http://grammarpolice.net/archives/001662.php In its continued war against the Florida Flophouse, the District of Columbia sent operatives from a different agency to threaten us with fines. Yesterday we were visited by the Housing Regulation Administration, who told us to bag up the cardboard... 1662@http://grammarpolice.net/ District 2008-05-06T15:21:35-05:00 http://grammarpolice.net/archives/001661.php So, um, did you guys just feel an earthquake? I am very certain I felt the ground shake and I even thought for one split second that it was an earthquake, but it was over too quickly to register. UPDATE:... 1661@http://grammarpolice.net/ Science 2008-05-06T14:32:55-05:00 http://grammarpolice.net/archives/001660.php 1660@http://grammarpolice.net/ Style 2008-05-06T12:40:59-05:00 http://grammarpolice.net/archives/001659.php Readers should know that I'm no longer writing for the Washington City Paper. The proximate cause for my dismissal was a letter to the editor, which the paper forwarded to me two weeks ago. In the letter, a reader asked... 1659@http://grammarpolice.net/ Housekeeping 2008-05-05T12:28:26-05:00 http://grammarpolice.net/archives/001658.php 1658@http://grammarpolice.net/ Texas 2008-05-02T12:51:36-05:00 http://grammarpolice.net/archives/001657.php Throughout my life I have seen, without one exception, narrow-shouldered men performing innumerable idiotic acts, brutalising their fellows, and corrupting souls by every means. They call the motive for their actions: fame. Seeing these exhibitions I've longed to laugh, with... 1657@http://grammarpolice.net/ Poetry 2008-05-01T16:38:20-05:00 http://grammarpolice.net/archives/001656.php Sam Taylor-Wood, That White Rush, 2007. One image that's stayed with me since the art fairs last December? Sam Taylor-Wood's That White Rush. Taylor-Wood, who is known for her photography, gives her medium a gentle tweak and winds up with... 1656@http://grammarpolice.net/ Art 2008-05-01T11:38:42-05:00 http://grammarpolice.net/archives/001655.php So I'll see you all at Borders downtown tonight to see Yglesias give a talk on Heads in the Sand? Thought so.... 1655@http://grammarpolice.net/ Politics 2008-05-01T11:11:39-05:00 http://grammarpolice.net/archives/001654.php Tyler Green writes in Portfolio that Christie's will try its hand at selling at auction Richard Neutra's 1946 Kaufmann House. Sometimes called the Kaufmann Desert House, the modest Modernist resort in Palm Springs, California, was restored in the 1990s... 1654@http://grammarpolice.net/ Architecture 2008-04-30T17:35:31-05:00 http://grammarpolice.net/archives/001653.php There's a comical panel in Amazing Fantasy #15 in which the authors essentially beg the reader to take a chance on this Spider-Man creation they're testing out. Check it out at the Library of Congress blog, where it's announced... 1653@http://grammarpolice.net/ Comics 2008-04-30T14:30:04-05:00 http://grammarpolice.net/archives/001652.php Here is the Harvard Crimson, comparing Yale's Aliza Shvarts's to Cornel West, a tenured professor who had the audacity to record a rap album. I'd expect that fellow students would take more seriously issues of academic freedom and institutional incursions... 1652@http://grammarpolice.net/ Art 2008-04-25T09:54:17-05:00