Recent content by yolland

Yeah, I mean if we're talking about the fate of specific individuals that's doubtless true. But that's a small group of people, and frankly, they're no more likely to ever show up in my classroom than they were in your BSc courses, because their parents certainly don't want some commie feminazi...

No personal attacks please, better to just ignore than say this.

Allright guys, that's enough. No more back and forth about patronizing/protecting/arse-kicking minorities, drunkenness, Southern strategies, or related or unrelated flamebait thereof.

In the US, pediatric tonsillectomy actually was a very routine procedure for preventing typical childhood throat infections 60 years ago. That came to an end when large-scale followup studies made it clear that the operation did not in fact have that effect for most children, and given that...

While I feel strong disdain towards creationism, I'm not keen on the tactic of linking it to the US' track record in generating future sci-tech workers. The attrition rates within science-related majors at American colleges and universities are indeed troubling--twice that of all other majors...

I'd say the other way round was closer to the truth, but either way it's one reason why Bill Clinton might be loath to do what Sullivan urges. I think though Sullivan was more envisioning that Clinton as a leader in welfare reform would have special clout in countering misinformation about the...

Campaign strategy's about the now though, not the longterm. National Journal, Aug. 27

New York Times, Aug. 26 A longstanding tendency to "communicate...in one-word sentences" has nothing in particular to do with bipolar disorder, AFAIK. It almost comes across as if they mean to pathologize that trait too, and perhaps there's something to that, but if so I'm inadequate to...

Andrew Sullivan, Aug. 28

I'm sure they're quaking in their boots. I read an article about "the Kony-ification of Pussy Riot" last week, which this item could've fit well into.

Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, founder and éminence grise of Israel's coalition kingmaker Shas party, doesn't translate too gracefully into English either: Jerusalem Post, Aug. 26 He's made similar remarks about Palestinians in the past ("[May] all the nasty people who hate Israel, like Abu Mazen...

It's just a change in one little word, but I wonder if this particular debunk might be more widely accepted--and even made more accurate, for that matter--if people proposing it routinely used "bisexual," as Bering does here, rather than "closeted gay," which implies that It's-a-choicers'...

You're right, sorry. Back to the thread topic...

This is about culture, not gender. I get why it grates on you to hear an American identify herself as "Irish," and I also get why she's bewildered that it grates on you. I remember a huuuuge Interference flame war on this exact topic several years back (with different posters). Seen a...

This seems like a pretty crazy exam to me (not your fault, I know!). If the purpose is to test for Serbian-to-English text translation skills, then they should really provide whole paragraphs (or longer) for translating, not a bunch of random decontextualized sentences--the inevitable result of...