Politics

On The Death of Bin Laden

On The Death of Bin Laden by John Tully Now I lay me down to sleep while people cheer in the streets like creeps Of course I love and respect our troops but wonder why they get treated like poop Having to buy body armor-on their fifth deployment, while people fetishize them- a video game […]

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“Democrat Majority”: Offensive But Not Ungrammatical

Language Log January 31, 2007 Roger Shuy (“-ic“) is not the only one who’s been talking about the president’s missing morpheme. At the start of Maura Reynolds’ article “The ‘Democrat majority’ is still the talk of the capital” in the Los Angeles Times, 1/30/2007, she asks: Will President Bush put the “-ic” back in “Democratic”? […]

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