Fun

Follow the link to see the sort of thing I do for fun (no, it wasn’t me). And marvel at the level of passion in the official’s voice without a single swear word.

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Etonline

I’m not a celebrity junkie type, honest, but Andy pointed to a crappy bit of captioning on the Beeb’s website: “Holmes romanticised about marrying Cruise as a young girl”

  1. “Romanticized about” – what? Technically the intransitive form of the verb can be used in this manner, but the transitive form is overwhelmingly more common and doesn’t allow for such a construct. She may have “fantasized about”, but would have “romanticized the idea of”. And it’s an ugly word anyway.
  2. “Cruise as a young girl” – Some people thing Mr Cruise doesn’t get sufficient credit for his range as an actor. Perhaps, but this would be a stretch for anyone with lesser talents than Sir Alec Guinness, and even he would have been hard pressed to match the ‘young’ descriptor.
  3. Even allowing for what the ‘journalist’ meant, as opposed to what was written, it’s misleading; it suggests that Ms Holmes is no longer a young girl.
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Meirs

There has been a lot of criticism from all sides about the President’s latest pick for the Supreme Court, and I just want to say that it’s unfair. Mr Bush himself said that she was “the best person I could find”, and I think he’s telling the truth. The White House is a big building, and I imagine it’s quite easy to get lost. So with that constraint I’m absolutely confident that Meirs was the best person he could find.

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RSS

Despite the fact that my own feed doesn’t work at the moment, in general RSS is A Good Thing ™. And if you want to use this Good Thing, I can now recommend Vienna as a Good Thing to read Good Things with. And it’s free! And it’s Mac only! What more could you want?