Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Etc.
Posted in WEeding Awards on May 20th, 2008
After writing a WEedy-winning piece last week, Ralph Peters has a new piece up about how the media are not reporting the success of American and Iraqi troops in Iraq.
Other than the news itself which he is reporting, note the following:
(1) He clearly identifies who is responsible for what, both good and bad.
(2) As a [...]
Posted in WEeding Awards on May 18th, 2008
You can read them here.
From the Prologue:
This week’s WEeding Awards begin and end with pundits loathing you and me (and themselves) for our international failures. One pundit’s conservative. The other progressive. (Perhaps we should take up a collection for them, seeing as they seem to be so down.)
It’s second and third winners advocate that you [...]
Posted in WEeding Awards on May 16th, 2008
After their editorial “We’re (Still) No. 1” won a WEeding Award on Sunday for, among other lines, the following:
The Soviets were going to bury us, remember? We buried them.
. . . it seems the Investor’s Buisness Daily editors have come to their collective senses. Yesterday “they” wrote:
Reagan is reputed to have nodded off at cabinet [...]
Posted in WEeding Awards on May 11th, 2008
From the Prologue:
This week’s volume of the WEeding Awards shows us that people on both sides of the political aisle can express diametrically opposed views while committing the same mistake.
First, it highlights WEeds by two commentators who are for — and by a Democratic presidential candidate who is against — the Iraq war. (”What’s wrong [...]
Posted in WEeding Awards on May 5th, 2008
Thanks to the interwebs acumen of The Wife, I now have a new home for the WEeding Awards! Click here.
UPDATE:
And the WEeding Awards have a new banner thing too! It looks sweet, if I do say so myself.
Posted in WEeding Awards on May 4th, 2008
[Official Version Published Here]
[<<Volume 1 _________________________________________ Volume 3>>]
WEeding Awards, vol. 2
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Last week there was only one winning text. This week, I will be awarding WEedies to six texts (click on the text’s title to jump to its WEeding Award announcement):
2: “The Real Cost of Tackling Climate Change,” by Steven Hayward, Wall [...]
Posted in WEeding Awards on May 2nd, 2008
From the Prologue:
A new format this week leads to a more-amusing read, if I do say so myself. I have interspersed my commentary with the quotations for each WEedy article, to delightful effect.
As always, the writers whose work is honored come from both sides of the political aisle. Volume 5 begins and ends with pieces [...]
Posted in WEeding Awards on Apr 27th, 2008
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[<<Volume 0 _________________________________________ Volume 2>>]
WEeding Awards, vol. 1
[Awards Home] [Winners] [Records] [FAQ]
Announcement
I am instituting the WEeding Awards to highlight those texts which continue the unfortunate trend of misusing the first-person plural. It is my hope that these awards will inspire people to weed out such mistakes in their own thinking. (And I [...]
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