Uneasy Rhetoric

Get this. The old theme for my blog worked just find in Firefox. However, Internet Explorer users could not leave comments! Didn’t stop the comment spammers though.
So, I’ve changed my theme to one I’m still working on. It isn’t the same, and there isn’t an archives page yet, but it’s getting there. [...]

Without the Kings, no one would know what Sacramento is. Capital of California? Are you sure it isn’t San Francisco? Really? You kidding? Wow. Where is Sacramento?
ESPN recently issued its fan satisfaction rankings and this is how the Kings fared, compared to other NBA teams (all numbers out of [...]

An article in today’s Bee bids farewell to chef Mark Liberman of the Cascades restaurant in Roseville. Liberman has some interesting things to say about the state of culinary arts in Sacramento. Briefly, he claims that Sacramentans don’t know how to eat.
Point: He’s right. In many respects, Sacramento and its environs is [...]

I can’t say I’m surprised that the Kings traded Webber, but I will be a little sorry to see him go. It looked like he was getting back into his game. Still, the Kings did very well without him when he was injured last year; it gave Peja a chance to shine and [...]

This article from the Houston Chronicle illuminates the fact that the phrase “y’all,” once firmly entrenched in Southern American English and parodies thereof, has expanded beyond the boundaries of the South.
The article cites several reasons for this expansion, including increasing mobility of the population as a whole and the fact that “y’all” fills a hole [...]