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Gary Jones nails it with his discussion of speech mannerisms I dread listening to either Obama or McCain speak (or Bush), and Palin would be a chore to listen to as well except that I’m used to women who talk like that. I live among them and do not mistake their mannerisms for either stupidity… Read more

…to vote for Obama.  Iowahawk explains why. Read more

Arnold Zwicky catches the New Yorker being snobby about Sarah Palin’s speech patterns: ,,,using non-standard spellings like gonna for standard (but informal) phonological variants paints the speaker as folksy, rustic, etc. (Mark Liberman has called such spellings "standard non-standard orthography".) The writer thus covertly injects a social judgment about the speaker into what is framed as… Read more

Devastating.  If there’s one thing White People despise, it’s a lack of authenticity: Obama is a Harvard lawyer who is a mile wide and an inch deep. He is only the latest in a long line of shallow elites that consider it stylish and intellectual to despise their own culture and heritage I can imagine… Read more

"It would be a disgrace and humiliation if Barack Obama does not win."  Take it from a guy who knows. Read more

Is it being a 0-bama supporter, or hanging around with Mark Cuban…that makes Josh Howard such an a$$hole?  It certainly can’t be the fact that he’s underpaid. Read more

"I sat outside a 7-Eleven and had a sacramental Dove chocolate bar."  And this dingbat is from Texas.  (Hmm,  I wonder if I can score some points with the Big Guy by having a Snickers.)  Still, it’s nice to know there’s another lefty out there who still believes in God (referred to as He or… Read more

Bigmouth Joe Biden is one hell of a high roller; his average charitable contributions over the past 10 years are $369.  That’s about how much I contribute to the oddball fund-raisers my students come up with each year, before I chip in for those causes I really care about.  Hell, my wife dropped more than… Read more

There’s an interesting article over at the Belmont Club on the Secret Weapon discussed by Bob Woodward on 60 Minutes and in his new book The War Within.*  Some the comments are a bit over the top, so here’s my take. Since we’re pulling stuff out of our butts, I’ll play: Thirty years ago the… Read more

I’m delighted to hear that the inmates of such prominent kleptocracies as Mexico, China, Egypt, and Russia favor 0-bama over McCain.  It only clarifies my preference. Tip from the Drudge Report, whose employees don’t know the difference betweeen ABC (Austrialian) and BBC (Brit). Read more