Uneasy Rhetoric

In an earlier post on condo living in Sacramento, Maya mentioned, and Sugit linked to, a proposal to create “Gold Rush Park,” basically a huge adjunct to Discovery Park in the Richards Boulevard area.
Putting aside for a moment the fact that buisnesses may object heartily (and my mother would lose one of her favorite restaurants, [...]

The L.A. Times ran a surprising little editorial today. In “Nuke it, Already,” they call for an end to the filibuster, not just for judicial nominees, but for everything.
As a liberal living under a conservative regime, the thought of the Republicans being able to force ultra-conservative judicial nominees, or any legislation for that matter, [...]

I wonder. Of people on the internet, what is the average number of email addresses per person? I’m talking about email addresses that you have given out and that you check on a regular enough basis that they won’t suddenly disappear.
I have an Oddpost address,
Two Yahoo addresses,
Two Gmail addresses,
My main “uneasyrhetoric” email,
My [...]

Any native English speaker who has spent time learning French has no doubt struggled with the genders of nouns. Sadly, there is no overarching short-cut to learning them, other than always learning them with the vocabulary. However, there are generalizable rules, such as nouns ending in -tion are usually feminine.
I learned another general [...]

One thing I really hate about blogging: you’re expected to take a stand on whatever issue you’re addressing. You aren’t allowed to be a fence-sitter, a centrist, an “undecided” - in short, you aren’t allowed to be half-assed about anything.
This has really hit home on my recent post, “Manhattan, the Pearl, and Penis Envy,” [...]