Author: growthrate

A couple of weeks ago I posted a Friday word game over at dKos.  The subject then was mondegreens, those songs where you hear the lyrics wrong for months and years at a time.  You know, like the refrain in...

Sometimes the best lessons are from ordinary life. Last night, as on many other evenings, I found myself called upon to give a dramatic reading of Dr. Seuss’s Green Eggs and Ham to my six-year-old daughter.  We sat,...

“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean – neither more nor less.”  –  Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass, and...

President Bush made a surprise appearance this morning at the ceremonial swearing-in of Ben Bernanke, the new Chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve.  Also in attendance were Bernanke’s predecessors,...

Around here, and everywhere else that politics is the main talk, all eyes were on the Senate today, of course.  Enough said about that, in this diary anyway.  In the real world, meanwhile, most everybody’s...