In case you’re wondering, I’ll be camping here this weekend:

And while I’m in a political mood, I think I’ll share this. I found it hilarious.

JibJab. (You’ll have to bear through a brief car commercial first.)

I usually don’t watch TV much. It’s been like that for me for the past several years. Except now that I work in the deli, I always find myself getting pulled into whatever is on the TV there, which is the news, more often than not. As a result, this news, especially when paired with my local paper, has left me with a growing frustration with the disgustingly open bias of the media in the past months.

After reading an article by Orson Scott Card, I was turned on to the possibility that there is actually a media source out there that is not horrendously liberally biased. So today at work, I flipped to Fox News.

It was like a breath of fresh air. To hear reporters being openly sceptical of the current Democratic National Convention without shame. It’s so good to see some news that will not bow to the pressures of the mainstream media. Now all I need is to find a newspaper that will do the same.

I switched over to a new template today. I’ll tweak around with it later tonight to make it more what I want. Let me know what you think!

“There’s already a couple gallons of milk in the fridge.”

You’ve heard it. Though chances are you did not notice at the time. Can you spot why the above sentence is incorrect?

I’ve heard it said that you can follow 80% of American conversation with a working English vocabulary of only 800 words (as opposed to, say, 2000 words needed in other languages, such as French). This is because we always opt for the simple word, and, in fact, it often sounds awkward to use the less-common, but more precise, alternatives. Are we just getting lazy as we speak? Why does it seem odd for someone to use a “big” word in everyday conversation?

Our language is slowly fading away into vague nothingness. As a speaker of a couple secondary languages, I’m amazed at how over-simplified English has become. What takes six different conjugations in most languages (hablo, hablas, habla, hablamos, hablais, hablan) takes only two in English (I/you/we/they speak, he/she speaks).

Guess what’s going next? “There’s already a couple gallons of milk in the fridge?” NO! There is not a couple gallons of milk in the fridge! There are a couple gallons of milk.