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Vicki McClure Davidson | November 30, 2011
A charming Google doodle on the search engine’s homepage today, which honors the 176th birthday of American author and humorist Samuel Clemens, better known by his pen name of Mark Twain. It captures the famous fence whitewashing scene — “thirty yards of board fence nine feet high” — from Twain’s celebrated 1876 novel The Adventures [...]
Vicki McClure Davidson | November 30, 2011
You know what Barack Obama’s record rock-bottom approval, now below that of Jimmy Carter’s, could mean? Another gawd-awful expensive road trip in the Darth Vader bus, baby! Reported by US News, Obama’s Job Approval Drops Below Carter’s: President Obama’s slow ride down Gallup’s daily presidential job approval index has finally passed below Jimmy Carter, [...]
Vicki McClure Davidson | November 29, 2011
Need a non-Black Friday, non-Occupy Wall Street, non-Obama laugh today? Devilishly wry posting at House of Eratosthenes, I Totally Hate These Words… here’s the first entry: 1. Totally Devoid of purpose. It is a linguistic tool, conceived for the purpose of complementing a verb, stipulating a condition of completeness. So it’s a synonym of [...]
