Monthly Archives: September 2016

ME AND MY FRIEND VS. MY FRIEND AND I

For the Annals of Inter-generational Communication, the following report. Twice in the last week younger people of my acquaintance made a remarkable grammatical self-correction mid- sentence. Emily and Amanda, both around 30, in separate conversations with people of their parents’ generation, began to start a sentence with “me and my friend, (my sister, whatever)…” and […]

Nuclear power: what a mess.

What a mess. Nuclear power was once touted as miracle of the future which would provide virtually free electricity. A nuclear power plant’s smokestack-less, clean profile was the very image of the sexy future. The world rushed to embrace it. 60 years later, sadder-but-wiser, we know that nuclear power has inherent flaws as a technology. […]

HILLARY AND THE GENDER ISSUE

Respondents to a recent poll are divided on whether Hillary Clinton’s being of the female persuasion will help or hurt her chances. I think that it ought, in any case, to help her. Yes, I know there’s the idea out there that we shouldn’t vote for a woman candidate just because of gender, any more […]