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The Great Pop vs. Soda Controversy.

I remember having a conversation about this many years ago in a mixed group of Minnesotans (pop), Texans (coke), and Rhode Islanders (soda). And some people claim that American English doesn't have dialects...

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Where are the planes? Hardly any air traffic today, either. Weird!

"Real wars are not metaphors."

If you haven't seen it yet, go read Susan Sontag's essay on the current "war on terrorism". (schpahky was nice enough to include it in her journal.)

We need more voices speaking the truth about what's happening here. As I commented there, I suppose, because it's the pure, unvarnished truth at a time when people want platitudes, she'll be roundly condemned for it.