Slanguage
Your Slanguage Profile New England Slang: 100% Victorian Slang: 75% Aussie Slang: 50% Canadian Slang: 50% Southern Slang: 50% Prison Slang: 25% British Slang: 0% What Slanguage Do You Speak?
Take action on Supreme Court Nomination
Time to put the pressure on! Now that we’ve lost an important moderate swing vote in Sandra Day O’Connor, we have to make sure that a right-wing ideologue doesn’t take her place. A meaningful candidate, qualified for the job and acceptable to both sides of the aisle would go a long way toward protecting our liberty, rights, environment, choices, and all the rest while protecting us against the ongoing dismantlement of our representative democracy. Surely we deserve someone who will…
The Year You Were Born
In 1964 (the year you were born) Lyndon B. Johnson is president of the US After riots break out, Panama suspends relations with he US Cassius Clay becomes heavyweight champion when Sonny Liston throws in the towel in the sixth round in Miami Near Anchorage, the strongest earthquake ever to strike North America kills 117 Worst soccer disaster in history occurs when rioting and panic kills over 300 in Liverpool Hundreds of white college students work for civil rights in…
What American Regionalisms?
Your Linguistic Profile: 50% Yankee 35% General American English 10% Upper Midwestern 5% Dixie 0% Midwestern What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
Provocative Questions
Dennis Rahkonen (‘The Republican Wile E. Coyote‘, 6-27-05) thinks that Durbin’s apology was unwise. In his view, we should perhaps be making more actual historical comparisions between this administration and that of Hitler’s Germany. Here are some starter questions for eager researchers… Did German motorists have “Support Our Troops” ribbons on their Volkswagens in 1943? Did conservatives loyal to Hitler pooh-pooh reports of Jews being abused in concentration camps in the same way neocon Bush backers blithely dismiss documentation by…
How Jedi Quiz
how jedi are you? :: by lawrie malen