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Archive for August, 2007

Repetitive. And Repetitious.

Thursday, August 9th, 2007

Warren Kinsella in today's National Post:
Graffiti is ubiquitous; it's everywhere.

And one paragraph later, in case you didn't get it:
It's all over the place. . . . 

Kinsella is always tiresome. Tedious too.

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Trash Talking

Wednesday, August 1st, 2007

Can reading a book rot your brains? Last week's article in the New York Times about the children's book series, Junie B. Jones, got me thinking.
The journalist does a good job of drawing the controversy over the books to battles over phonics and "whole language." And her summary of Junie B. Jones' voice is almost [...]

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