Equality of Opportunity or of Outcome?

August 19, 2009 By

Let’s look some more at this piece by Jillian Bandes, on Obama’s new “Chief Diversity Officer,” Mark Lloyd. I was a bit snarky yesterday when I wrote of this newly-created office: Does it seem to you that the Obama administration makes up titles and offices the way Bluto made up new names for Animal House [...]

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Same Old America; "Freedom & Opportunity"

August 10, 2009 By

I am on monastic retreat until the weekend, and have scheduled two reposts each day of pieces that some may not have read before. Comments will be off until I return. You might like peeking into last year’s Online Retreat * * * Originally posted in December of 2007, and rather poignant, given the tenor [...]

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More on "thee" & "thuh"

May 14, 2009 By

Or, “th’” as Joseph Marshall correctly deems it (I think) in the comments section of this surprisingly rambunctious post from yesterday, wherein we wondered how one properly should pronounce the word T-H-E when it precedes a word beginning with a vowel. Not my most popular recent post (that would be my admonishment to Christian girls [...]

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