Recent content by The_Alkaline [deprecated]

I agree. It's much sexier to plug domestic issues like healthcare and education, but I think voters could be made to see that the biggest problem America faces is its image on a world stage. The next president has to sit down at a table with Vlad, Gordon, Merkel, and come away with what he or...

Proficiency in language is important, but I will contend that what you do with language is much more important than standard language education.

Of all the things you might say about my post, you choose a compliment. :) Sadly, in to many things, Twain quotes included, I am a Philistine. I have heard that it predates Twain and was used by a French noble, which I hope is the case as to better avoid the need to give credit. Most of my...

I now watch only Bebop because I have no time to sift through a mound of refuse to find another gem. That said, I heard somewhere that the bebop characters are more real than characters in other animes. We are the jilted lover, we are the child in a brave new world, we are all running from...

Let me ask you to think in a different way about this situation. Think of a community of people who use language. For simplicity, make this community relatively small, geographically close, and English speaking. Let's say that this community is some kind of an abomination. In all of their...