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Wednesday, June 20, 2007 10:45 AM
Original article: A tragic legacy

I haven't checked to see if this was said before, but...

Magna Carta doesn't take an article. Latin doesn't have them, so we don't refer to "the Magna Carta," just "Magna Carta."

Wednesday, July 11, 2007 11:16 AM

Using Dictionary.com? Really?

The OED defines abuse as:

-Wrong or improper use, misuse, misapplication, perversion.

-A bad or improper usage (i.e. a use which has become chronic), a corrupt practice.

-Injurious speech, reviling, execration; abusive language.

-Improper use of words (Chiefly rhet.)

or as a synonym for violation. Nowhere in the entire entry does the dictionary even mention intention. Abuse comes from the Latin word to either use up, or mis-use. Again, no mention of intention. It's pervertedly amusing how abuse can refer to catachresis, when that's the precise tool the Bush administration has used to keep its stranglehold on absolute power.

Tuesday, August 28, 2007 02:16 PM

No sense of humor because of birht? Ha!

I think women have to have some inherent sense of humor in order to undergo birth. I mean, women have their respective most-private-areas spread open for some 24 year-old acne-scarred intern to observe for eight hours, while passing a bowling ball through the straw that is the birth canal and most likely shitting themselves at least twice (they never tell them they're going to). How can women not have a sense of humor about such an experience?

Friday, August 31, 2007 11:06 AM

Why aren't they studying the *gasp* potentiality that women have superior endurance

Q. v. Astrid Benohr, whose quintuple-&-deca-ironman world records are two and five hours faster than the men's.

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