Month: May 2005

“Words can be like notes, like expressions of the soul,” Don Watson writes in his new book, DEATH SENTENCES: How Cliches, Weasel Words, and Management-Speak Are Strangling Public Language (Gotham Books, 208 pages,...

Or why we keep banging our heads against the wall. The GOP has a monopoly on hero worship. Through the use of imagery, pulpits and media since Reagan, they have succeeded in painting their leaders as demi-gods/ heros/ righteous...

(Updated 4:06 PM PST) [I should have added that if you have done a poll in a diary, please copy and past results on a comment. It would be nice to have a colleciton of polls all in one place, should we ever need it. You just...

I think I skipped a week. It’s been a busy time! But I want to continue highlighting the disgusting level of corruption in the Repub leadership. This campaign will only work if many of us are working on it. Together we can...

First this item that got me started… Odyssey Sirens ‘were monk seals’ A German scientist claims to have found the Sirens of the Greek myth of Odysseus, who lured ships onto the rocks with their song: they are,...