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Carl Douglass HOW TO WRITE WITH ACCENTS, DIALECT, SLANG, COLLOQUALISM, AND ETHNICITY
How to speak British, course 202 Cockney Rhyming Slang: Although the words are standard English, even in pronunciation–pretty much–translation takes …
Carl Douglass The True Meaning of Thanksgiving: A Reflection on Gratitude and Connection
Thanksgiving is more than just a day marked by turkey dinners, pumpkin pie, and family gatherings. At its core, Thanksgiving …
Carl Douglass Mysterious Chimeras Part 2
PART 2 CAUSATION: One recipe for chimerism begins during pregnancy with twins–or triplets, octuplets, etc. There is a genuine medical …
A Different Perspective on the Electoral College
The election of 1890 in Michigan not only established Edwin B. Winans as Governor but also resulted in a Democratic …
Carl Douglass Mysterious Chimeras
In 2005, an impossibly mysterious law enforcement case happened in Alaska. A man was in prison for a crime. During …
Evan Swensen BALLYHOO!
Ballyhoo. Now, here’s a word you don’t hear every day. At least not yet. It’s a 1920s term meaning extravagant, …
Carl Douglass HOW TO WRITE WITH ACCENTS, DIALECT, SLANG, COLLOQUALISM, AND ETHNICITY
How to speak British, course 201: Any discussion of British English would be incomplete without a look at the different …
Carl Douglass DEMOCRACY LOST, DICTATORSHIP TAKES ITS PLACE, AND SO, AD INFINITUM
In Conclusion: What we are seeing in America in 2024 is a nascent, but potent, populist revolution and the potential …
Carl Douglass DEMOCRACY LOST, DICTATORSHIP TAKES ITS PLACE, AND SO, AD INFINITUM
Why should we care who gets elected? My opinion–that of many who are not committed by party affiliation to …
Carl Douglass DEMOCRACY LOST, DICTATORSHIP TAKES ITS PLACE, AND SO, AD INFINITUM
A Second Trump Presidential Administration A mass deportation operation. A new Muslim ban. Tariffs on all imported goods and “freedom …
Steve Levi The Matter of the Rubber Duckie Debacle
The nearest Captain Heinz Noonan, the “Bearded Holmes” of the Sandersonville Police Department had ever come to a rubber duckie …
Steve Levi The Matter of the Bicycle Scrap Piracy
Captain Noonan, the “Bearded Holmes” of the Sandersonville Police Department, did not have a nice thing to say about bicycling. …