"Colorless green ideas sleep furiously." Noam Chomsky

Roberts Speaks Out on DWI Case

Seeded on Wed Oct 21, 2009 12:23 PM EDT (AOL)

Richmond, Va., police were called on the morning of Dec. 31, 2005, and told that an intoxicated Harris was driving a green Altima down the street. ...

politics, supreme-court, drunk-driving, 4th-amendment, john-roberts

Dozens Dead and Hundreds Feared Missing From Typhoons

Seeded on Mon Aug 10, 2009 6:53 PM EDT (The New York Times)

BEIJING — The toll from two Pacific typhoons rose Monday, as a rural village in south-central Taiwan was buried in rubble, leaving as many as 600 people missing, and at least 12 people were killed on Japan's western coast.

world-news, china, japan, asia, philippines, earthquake, beijing, taiwan, flood, typhoon

Batting Stance Guy (AKA Gar Ryness) Performs On Letterman (VIDEO)

Seeded on Wed Aug 5, 2009 4:00 PM EDT (The Huffington Post)

Ryness has a singular talent: an ability to perform comically dead-on impressions of major league baseball hitters upon request. Little Leaguers have been known to try to imitate their favorite ballplayers.

sports, mlb, baseball, comedy, impression, imitation, gar-ryness

Are old languages worth saving?

Seeded on Tue Jul 14, 2009 6:29 PM EDT (MSN)

John Miller ... asserts that every time a language dies, it's time to celebrate because it means another 'primitive' tribe has joined the modern world. Although Miller fails to mention what's so great about the modern world, he does have a point.

language, linguistics, language-evolution, language-death, language-maintenance

TV Interferes With Infants' Language Development

Seeded on Tue Jun 2, 2009 7:57 PM EDT (MSN)

Television reduces verbal interaction between parents and infants, which could delay children's language development, says a U.S. study that challenges claims that certain infant-targeted DVDs actually benefit youngsters.

education, television, children, language, linguistics, verbal-development

Arguments against the opposition to marriage equality

Thu May 28, 2009 10:16 PM EDT

In light of the multitude of seeds and articles surrounding marriage equality, in what follows I will attempt to respectfully, clearly, and articulately express my arguments against the opposition to marriage equality (and I request that, in any subsequent comments you may make, …

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politics, law, christianity, gay-marriage, homosexuality, marriage-equality, homosexual-marriage

Me, myself, and I: the loss of case marking in English pronouns

Thu Apr 30, 2009 1:34 AM EDT

Abstract: The present article addresses the issue of grammatical case and how it relates to English, tracing the historic loss of complete nominal case during the Norman conquest to modern variability in conjoined expressions with pronouns, e.g., "Me and Bill" or "Bill and me" ve …

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education, language, english, linguistics, grammar, old-english

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