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- Written by: Rita Cormulley
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George Will, who’s nothing if not self-referential, often draws upon his spoken commentary for his opinion editorials. The following deconstructs a number of arguments he has made using this pattern:
For an allegedly brilliant and independent intellect, George Will certainly makes himself easy pickin’s.
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No, ash is not fixated on Ann Coulter. In fact, ash appreciates Coulter as a rich source of material, if Coulter’s assertions are almost too effortlessly dismantled, which they are. The following, responding to a Coulter column declaring that Bush isn’t to blame for his sinking approvability, could as easily have addressed any number of conservatives reduced to making fools of themselves in order to defend their boy-hero:
The liberal east-coast author, columnist and blogger Eric Alterman calls it “working the refs.” Alterman graciously credits the term to Republican activist Rich Bond, who invented it, unless anybody happened to think of it independently first.
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Letter-worthy? ash addresses that issue in her letter responding to the following letter:
• A mistake like this? You’re kidding
Arrrrgggghhhhh! I turned on Channel 22 in the wee hours of the morning hoping to hear a symphony, piano, violin, etc., but found the March 20 District 186 Board of Education meeting. Interesting, but nothing I felt a deep need to know.
Then a blue screen flashed before my eyes and in large white letters is stated “YOUR WATCHING ...” Come on now. Surely, there is someone out there who knows it should say “YOU ARE ...”
No, spell check doesn’t catch that sort of error, but people check does. The difference between “your” and “you are” used to be taught by fourth grade. Can’t we do better?
Martha Bradley, Retired teacher, Springfield
Retired teacher Martha Bradley certainly does speak for me when she laments the inability or refusal of students to learn grammar in elementary school.
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Guest columnist ashlover speaks with an authority ash cannot claim. Though his argument is based on impeccable logic, he feels at least as passionate on the subject as the fellow adoptee whom he disputes:
Enough already of the “pro-abortion” misnomer. Unless the speaker advocates forced population control (Russia), for instance, or the misguided one-couple-one-child policy, so if it’s just one, let’s have a male and eventually our culture will become extinct (China), the self-determination of a woman whether and when to have children is, properly described as pro-choice.