Uneasy Rhetoric

Carl posts about another new residential skyscraper planned for downtown Sacramento. The Aura (gak) will join The Towers on Capital Mall as they vye for position on Sacramento’s skyline. Both offer luxury condos and a host of amenities on-site including terrific views of the surrounding flat countryside which, if more developers have their [...]

Downtown Déjeuner:
Osteria ***
915 K Street
$8-$10
It’s been a while since I’ve done a “Downtown Déjeuner.” In part this is because I’m bringing my lunch more. It is also because, as might be expected, I’ve gotten myself into a rut. Either I go to Sticks or I go to Tony’s. Despite its status [...]

Talking Points Memo has an excellent analysis of the smoke-and-mirrors of Bush’s so-called embracing of indexing Social Security benefits.
For a liberal like me, such a move might not be such a bad thing in and of itself, except for two points that TPM brings up:
1. Indexing would make Social Security look much more like a [...]

More and more I think English is missing something by not having a separate pronoun for the second person plural.
Today we ate breakfast at 33rd Street Bistro (a good breakfast, but a very small menu). As the hostess was seating us, she said “you guys” three times. Once would have been fine, but [...]

Marnie Webb wonders about the value of tagging. She comes to the conclusion that the value of tagging does not lie in search, but in “discovery” and “aggregation.”
I would tend to agree, although both discovery and aggregation imply a kind of search, they certainly are not the “search” we’ve come to know through Google [...]