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Monday, March 18, 2024

Mass. attorney board rushes to racialize, shun 'overseer,' ignores word's ancient, biblical usages

A proposal published for public comment would change the name of the Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers to the "Board of Bar Oversi...

Thursday, August 24, 2023

Curmudgeon speaks on decline of grammar, civilization

Deteriorating grammar and style conventions signal the crumbling of western civilization. I'm a grammar-and-style curmudgeon, so take my...

Wednesday, July 13, 2022

Inter-American Court heralds community radio as human right for indigenous Guatemalan broadcasters

Community radio in Colombia (USAID CC BY-NC 2.0 via Flickr ) The Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR) ruled in October 2021 that ...

Friday, July 10, 2020

Linguists' famous feud evidences defamatory power of 'racist' charge

As I've written and spoken about in the past, in the 20-aughts, I was an unwilling combatant, enveloped collaterally, in "the Race...

Friday, September 9, 2016

Of turds and torts

<Warning: Vulgar language ahead!> Lately I have been doing research on "bad language" in anticipation of the Lenny Bruce ...

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