tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7017925699690446520.post1301509401154542744..comments2024-03-16T20:11:53.366-07:00Comments on Hepzibah: Where birds don't lay eggsAlan McCornickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15532896902247434009noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7017925699690446520.post-11169704639251714432018-01-16T12:55:10.502-08:002018-01-16T12:55:10.502-08:00What better way to deal with yet another of this p...What better way to deal with yet another of this president's daily inanities than to take your readers on a linguistic journey. Thank you for this one. Bill Sweigarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16077204793788908247noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7017925699690446520.post-18385799587659292612018-01-14T13:49:17.143-08:002018-01-14T13:49:17.143-08:00Yes - a laugh for the day! The contorted efforts o...Yes - a laugh for the day! The contorted efforts of other countries/languages to convey the point are hilarious. Never knew about your house/outhouse at the lake, though. Jim could identify - he too had one, and a dad who put in a septic system.<br />Your post reminded me, only somewhat amusingly, of the degree to which prudishness magnifies the meanings - my son and wife (especially wife) are very touchy about the use of 'bad words' by their children, or by others that might be present. To which end the oldest, who is all of nine - took a can of spray paint and wrote 'fuck' on the wall behind a door upstairs at the Cape Cod house last summer!<br />The coziness of the news media about all this only escalated the silly focus on the wrong things, mostly failing to call it the blatant racism it clearly was. Journalist Jamelle Bouie, the blackest of black men, almost bemusedly and without rancor called it out eloquently this morning on the news.Dorothea Jurgensonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02209001932200975956noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7017925699690446520.post-55096733625693903572018-01-13T13:40:40.088-08:002018-01-13T13:40:40.088-08:00What an amazing posting, Alan. Erudite, earthy, an...What an amazing posting, Alan. Erudite, earthy, and funny all at once — the best kind of bitchin' and testifyin'. Thank you!William D. Lindseyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07246026074693891965noreply@blogger.com