The legalization of marijuana is on the ballot in Nevada, stirring up the amount of controversary expected from a state whose biggest export is nothing because what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas. However, U.S. Drug Czar John Waters recently broke a Nevada law (which are hard to find) by actively campaigning against the dreaded Question 7.
Posts tagged 'language'
The Storyteller Generation Gap
20060825Fri
It was not poor planning, but rather mutual ignorance, that led to the simultaneous scheduling of the Commonwealth Club‘s lecture by Geoff Nunberg and the smartMeme reportback on the STORY project. Only because they offered such a chance to rub elbows with intelligent people did I break a sweat running through the streets in order to attend both. I’m glad I did. I don’t think anyone else noticed that the two were talking about exactly the same things.
To google
20060710Mon
Congratulations “google”, you’re officially a word now. You’ve finally got the juice you deserve. No more getting carded at librarian conventions. Maybe soon that red line under you in Word will go away. Before you get too excited, let’s take a look at other famous proper nouns that have now slipped into our daily usage.