Comments for REVOLUTIONARY GRAMMAR

Comment on Client Testimonial: A “Spectacular” Annual Report by Anand Sarwate

Anand Sarwate — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 21:58:31 +0000

Congratulations! You’ll have to make one of those book-blurb quote thingies.

Comment on Journalism’s responsibility to the public by Mark Jaquith

Mark Jaquith — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 06:35:56 +0000

It introduces a new and potentially powerful concept of fairness: being “fair to the truth,” which as we know is not always evenly distributed among the sides in a public dispute.

Love this. Somewhere along the way people got the idea that journalists should just report what each side says. It’s as if a sports reporter covering a boxing match were to neglect to mention who won the fight and instead just report that “both sides threw some punches”.

Comment on Slow Bicycle Movement: Not all cyclists in a hurry by Chancey Mathews

Chancey Mathews — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 16:02:38 +0000

Next is the No Bike Movement!

Comment on Slow Bicycle Movement: Not all cyclists in a hurry by Celeste LeCompte

Celeste LeCompte — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 21:10:56 +0000

Well, I guess this story hit a nerve; it has really gotten some rotation. Andrew Sullivan, Felix Salmon, and BikeSnob all picked it up. You know you're doing something right when BikeSnob mocks you!

Comment on We’re Too Broke to Bike by Celeste LeCompte

Celeste LeCompte — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 05:14:17 +0000

I agree. I think she makes a similar mistake in terms of looking at economic impacts and gender. Yes, women are more likely to be poor. But the supporting statistics she uses are about whole households, not just the women in them — and her supporting scenarios for her supporting statistics are about two-parent, dual-gender households. So, yeah, I agree. Her overall point is valid, but poorly supported. It’s the kind of commentary my more conservative friends and colleagues turn up their noses at when you try to discuss sustainability and/or class and/or gender or whatever.

Comment on We’re Too Broke to Bike by Aneesa

Aneesa — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 23:23:45 +0000

This is an interesting article and makes a very valid point, so apologies in advance that this comment doesn’t address the important take-away. BUT I counted at least three times in this article when the author conflated the perceived necessity to “conform to professional norms in clothing, makeup, and hairstyles” with vanity and interest in fashion. When I show up to work without makeup on, for instance, I am asked by many coworkers if I’m tired, which is not something I want to inadvertently convey. I know the author knows the difference, but by repeatedly mixing them up to make her own point, she kind of just perpetuated the myth.

Comment on Home Is Where Your Books Are by erlthegirl

erlthegirl — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 23:12:04 +0000

I heart this. Also – as much as I do not regret our hardcore personal book purging over the years, the bookcases in my friends’ homes always make me happy.

Comment on Sewing Project: Turn Pants Into a Dress by exquisitecomics

exquisitecomics — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 23:11:02 +0000

looks amazing! i will have to see it in person!

Comment on Thomas Midgley, Hapless Destroyer of the Planet by Book Club: Fact and Fiction « REVOLUTIONARY GRAMMAR

Book Club: Fact and Fiction « REVOLUTIONARY GRAMMAR — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 04:24:11 +0000

[...] noted, back in August, that I was reading this book, and it didn’t take me three months to read it — so I’m [...]

Comment on Photos From My Father by Celeste LeCompte

Celeste LeCompte — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 16:25:53 +0000

Ha! You’re probably right about that. Although, there are plenty of squirrely faces in my kid pics too… maybe I was just born that way.