Wanted: Spell checkers. Contact the BBC

BBC NEWS | Europe | Police enter Iran protest plane The article itself is only mildly interesting (I applaud the courage of these people, while I happily ridicule their method and their strange desire to be http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=monarchy ruled) – but the standout point is the lack of even a basic proofread on the part of …

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I r edumacated.

OKCupid! presents: The Commonly Confused Words Test English Genius You scored 93% Beginner, 93% Intermediate, 100% Advanced, and 77% Expert! You did so extremely well, even I can’t find a word to describe your excellence! You have the uncommon intelligence necessary to understand things that most people don’t. You have an extensive vocabulary, and you’re …

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Do you know this man?

I caught http://www.honda.house.gov/ Representative Mike Honda last night on Hannity and Colmes as he blustered his way through explaining why he hates the United States Military, or more specifically, why he doesn’t think Military Recruiters should be able to talk to kids. Sean Hannity posited a simple question in the midst of the interview that …

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Two senators demonstrate they’ve never received any survival training

More politicians making much ado over nothing. Oh look, they’re both democrats. I clearly remember a few things about the first-aid instruction I was given in 1984 during basic training, the same instruction that was revised and refreshed every year since then as part of normal training. One of those things is that tourniquets are …

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Only in America can you be wrong for being normal

So this nice, normal lady makes some “remarks concerning appropriate gender roles”, all apparently based on the way hundreds of millions of normal Americans (not to mention the rest of the world) live, and she gets trashed because she didn’t talk about a lifestyle alien (possibly even abnormal) to her? How amusing. I guess this …

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