Is it disappearing?
I think that many regional accents are getting muted, due to the homogenization from television, and the much greater amount of intermixing as people move to different areas. The article doesn’t really explain the difference in the coffee pronunciation, though. I say “cawfee,” as she spells it. A New Yawkah says “kooawfee.”
A graph that explains why the economy is stagnating. It’s because of flawed government policies that continue to pump air into a blown tire.
“Being lesbian doesn’t mean I can’t enjoy s3x with men.”
Ummmmm…actually, it pretty much does.
Global warming and federalism.
…where no wives or kids can follow. Another piece from the current issue of Reason, by Nick Gillespie.
And I’m feeling a lot of schadenfreude.
Related: did social media usage drive Republicans more than Democrats? That seems counterintuitive but it may be so.
I share it, but I suspect we’re going to be disappointed. I don’t know what the filing deadlines are for the upcoming primaries, or how many delegates he’d realistically be able to get.
It’s inevitable, but there will be a lot of vicious fighting in the trenches by the entrenched before it happens.
Why it’s worse than worthless.
It is sort of metaphorical that he’s shutting down Main Street USA for his speech.
[Update a few minutes later]
Heh: “Embargoed excerpt of President Obama’s remarks at Disney World, FL, today: ‘It is a small world, after all. It is a small, small, world.'”
[Early afternoon update]
Here are the actual photos. As noted over there, this is surefire campaign-ad material.
[Update a couple minutes later]