Uneasy Rhetoric

(via Language Hat).
There’s a new language resource site called Language Feed. Each week, Language Feed provides a roundup of news stories about language.
For example, did you know that the U.S. Senate declared 2005 the “Year of Languages in the United States“?

A guest post at heckasac.com describes what happened at a recent planning meeting on the J/K/L corridor. In the course of the description, the writer touches on a number of criticisms I have had (for as long as I can remember) about planning in Downtown and Midtown Sacramento.
First, is the need for housing. [...]

I’m never sure if I should parrot BoingBoing since the whole world seems to read it, but for the benefit of the four of my eight readers who aren’t blog junkies, I give you the following:
The Department of Justice appears to have developed a couple of posters responding to the knee-jerk (and just plain jerky) [...]

In Billions for Marketing, But What About the Product?, NewDonkey.com discusses the fact that Democrats were money raising and money spending monsters during the 2004 election. Much of what we spent that money on, however, was marketing:
But amidst all the well-justified self-congratulations we’ll soon hear about Democratic fundraising in 2004, there’s an important point [...]

Wow, a monkey, here, and here. It appears, if I were to participate in this “monkey” (don’t call it a meme), I would have to tell a tale of an international border crossing.
Honestly, I don’t think I have any real stories to tell about international border crossings. I have done so exactly - [...]