Comments on: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is in the news again [see UPDATE]

By: Cappy

Cappy — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 12:46:47 +0000

My local library sells off books on the cheap by the metric shit ton.

Censorship!
Racism!
Witchcraft!
Free Silver!
FreeCreditReports.com!

By: Snow on Pine

Snow on Pine — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 17:05:58 +0000

om–Just for you.

Today just happens to be National Unicorn Day.*

Enjoy.

* See https://nationaltoday.com/national-unicorn-day/

By: Miguel cervantes

Miguel cervantes — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 16:44:07 +0000

The naval academy should be about studying the enemy qutb mao marx et al
Not wallowing in self loathing

By: Dax

Dax — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 16:27:48 +0000

David, thanks for the grammar correction. I see a sentence diagram in my mind’s eye.
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I didn’t realize Bill Kristol was still active.

By: Snow on Pine

Snow on Pine — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 13:58:14 +0000

Ya, grammar was always a problem for me in high school. I could tell if a sentence was wrong, and fix it but, I could never accurately name the various parts of speech, or what rule was being broken.

By: David

David — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 13:40:29 +0000

Hey, Someone Else, You’ve fallen victim, as did Kristol, to a common misconception. “Whoever typed up the list” is a separate clause, with “Whoever” its subject, thus using a pronoun in the subjective, not the objective case. If you don’t believe me, I’m sure you can find an explanation online. Check it out.

By: Someone Else

Someone Else — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 12:51:52 +0000

Hey, grammarian–

“By” is a preposition. “Whomever” is the object of that preposition, thus objective case. “Typed the list” modifies the “whomever.”

Would you say, “I suspect ‘malicious compliance’ by he”? Or “I suspect ‘malicious compliance” by him”?

By: Art Deco

Art Deco — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 12:26:37 +0000

As a group, college and university librarians are almost a self-parody of woke. Many of their careers have become inextricably entwined with DEI, and they won’t easily let go of it.
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Librarians themselves are often ready consumers of different sorts of offal, social, political, and professional. Varies person to person. The operations of the libraries themselves are not ‘woke’ except when the provost insists on hires being cleared by the head diversicrat. Personnel offices distribute templates on how interviews are to be conducted, but these are facially neutral.

By: Kate

Kate — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 12:14:58 +0000

I followed the link from Kristol’s X account to an NBC News republishing of an AP report. AP, NBC, and Kristol (and two other authors at the Bulwark, who co-wrote a screed about this) never bothered to check the story before going hysterical about it.

By: David

David — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 11:57:30 +0000

Grammatical error by Kristol: “I also suspect a little “malicious compliance” by whomever typed up the list. ” Should be “…by whoever typed up the list.”