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Cleaning Up the Nation

Austin Bay:

If Air America were a conservative radio network its corrupt funding trail and cynical abuse of a poverty program would be front page news at the NY Times and full-time mega-scandal at

Rank Materialism

Freedom. I am now the proud new owner of a Gateway 6020GZ laptop, perfect for students and others with limited means. I can now go into a Starbucks or a Barnes & Noble and look like I'm doing some

Fallujah Fonda

Uh-oh. From the Telegraph comes this exciting news:

Jane Fonda is returning to anti-war activism and embarking on a cross-country tour to call for an end to US military operations in Iraq.

Acros

John Pilger: Partner in Terrorism

In an outrageous piece of terrorist propaganda appearing on the cover of today's New Statesman, John Pilger puts the blame for the 7/7 London attacks not on the terrorists, but rather on Tony Blair:

Mr. President, we need to know?

In my continuing role as the blogger grammarian, I'd just like to point out that Howard Dean's 16 Questions aren't questions at all but declarative statements with question marks tacked onto the ends. Here's an example:

14) Mr. President, we need to know why your Administration had no plan to build the peace in post-war Iraq and seems to be resisting calls to include NATO, the United Nations and our allies in the stabilization and reconstruction effort?


Now if Howard Dean doesn't know the difference between a question and a statement, how does he expect the American public to have confidence that he can blah blah blah.

But seriously, what's with the question marks? I guess he wanted to go with "16 Questions" rather than "16 Declarative Statments" or "16 things we need to know" but 16 actual questions in a row come off as whiny. Why'd you do this? Why'd you do that? See what I mean? 16 declarative "Mr. President, we need to know"'s seem more authoratative. But then they aren't really questions. So just tack on question marks and voila! 16 Questions.

Yes, I know this is nitpicky.

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