I rarely agree with Powerline, what Time magazine called ‘The Blog of the Year’, because, well, I think they’re generally wrong. But this recent post surprised me more than most:
…supporters presented former player Kevin Campbell, a black who was quite unproductive for us during his last few years at Everton, with a trophy and DVD
Now it’s been a few years since I lived in the UK, but the last I heard people weren’t described as ‘a black’. Some variant of ‘a black man’, or ‘a black player’ (i.e. as an adjective) would be pretty common, but in the noun form of ‘a black’? That sounds more like a nineteenth century southern US term, similar to another one that springs readily to mind but my prudishness prevents me from using.
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Ugh, what a horrible blog. Warmed over conservative drivel. I just love how traditional media like Time feel that if they have to give some credit to the blogosphere, it’s going to be to political blogs. Both conservative and liberal blogs are some of the worst I’ve been, content to spit out the stories with the same filter applied to them over and over.
I’m unsurprisingly more sympathetic to godless-heathen-commie-lefto blogs, but even there the amount of righteous indignation that they whip up about the merest slight is a great irritant. Thank heavens politics in the UK is so civilized :S