Ken at Popehat on the War on the War on Christmas. There are few things more likely to get a link from me than pointing out that the war against political correctness is almost always just a different form of political correctness run amok.
by Mark Thompson on December 1, 2009
Ken at Popehat on the War on the War on Christmas. There are few things more likely to get a link from me than pointing out that the war against political correctness is almost always just a different form of political correctness run amok.
Mark is the Managing Editor of The League of Ordinary Gentlemen.
Over on the Mindless Diversions site...
Our intrepid commenter A Teacher tells the story of how he published his NaNoWriMo book (and, of course, tells us how we can get a copy of it for ourselves). ( 0 comments)
Nobel Peace Prize Jury Faces Formal Inquiry
Read the story here. Here’s the paragraph that would make clicking through worthwhile, if you’re still undecided:
If the Stockholm County Administrative Board, which supervises foundations in Sweden’s capital, finds that prize founder Alfred Nobel’s will is not being honored, it has the authority to suspend award decisions going back three years — though that would be unlikely and unprecedented, said Mikael Wiman, a legal expert working for the county. ( 7 comments)
A Little Side Project of Mine
As if I needed another blog! This one’s dedicated to translating some of the never-before-translated work of the French neo-Romantic poet Edmond Rostand, author of Cyrano de Bergerac and member of the Académie française.
Everyone knows Cyrano, of course, but much of Rostand’s lyric work has never been read in English before. I’m trying to change that, one poem at a time. ( 7 comments)
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Politically correct stopped being a useful term when being politically incorrect started to be fashionable ( and there was a tv show named Politically Incorrect). In fact most usages of the phrase politically incorrect are followed by either people pushing their own version of political correctness or people saying aggressively stupid or vile things they don’t want to be criticized for.
This sounds about right to me.
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