What’s under attack here is not the “not knowing,” but the “failure to take less than a minute to confirm information before posting it, thereby weakening trust in anything else he might post.”

Also, my comment from early Monday morning is still in moderation. No links or anything. I just tried it again and I suspect it will remain in eternal moderation.

And – I have been pregnant twice and have lived for 74 years. I guess I find it hard to understand how people can read, write, quote stuff that is supposed to be inspirational when it’s just a jumble of words.

I guess I won’t tell you any I think are great. You’d probably laugh. I guess I’m also bad because I could not tell from the quote who wrote it-Whitman or Frost. I’ve been out of school for years. Didn’t you guys listen to the TED deal on being wrong? Guess you missed that point also?

I come here mostly for the comments- an interesting and diverse group of people committed to the responsible use of money.

I came across it in the Dead Poet’s Society, which happened to come out just after I had suffered a devastating loss of leadership. I think Robin Williams’ discussion of the poem – and of poetry, in general – were big parts of inspiration and eventual healing.

Bless you for bringing it up.

I’m just glad I read the comments before the article.

For years, a secret shame destroyed my peace –
I’d not read Eliot, Auden, or MacNeice.
But now, I think a thought that brings me hope -
Neither had Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Pope…

However, I had my husband read through it, and got “I don’t get it.” So maybe it’s a male-female thing why Trent didn’t get it either.

We recently moved from San Francisco back to the midwest (the right choice for our family right now, but difficult nonetheless). I wanted to mention that one of the ways to have street art without long-term destruction of private property is… to stop considering street art destruction of private property. San Francisco is rich with gorgeous street art partially because property owners are involved and invite work on their walls, supported by the city and neighborhoods.

I’m not an authority on the situation there, so I may well be missing pieces, but I’d certainly like to see a move toward more (permanent and semi-permanent) street art. :)

The comparative of “old” (adj.); formerly equivalent to the modern “older” (adj. and n.), but now restricted to certain special uses.

That is: “elder” and “older” were at one time regarded more or less as interchangeable, but nowadays “elder” is used only in specific contexts. However, the clever men at Oxford go on to say:

Now chiefly with ns. denoting family relationship, or as denoting the senior of two indicated persons; otherwise somewhat arch.

That is: one of the “special uses” sanctioned by the Dictionary is precisely in describing family relationships. (For the benefit of any non-English-majors who may have wandered in, “arch.” in the above is an abbreviation for “archaic”; it does not mean that the use of “elder” is “clever, cunning, crafty, roguish, waggish”.)

Hence, it is not wrong in the least to speak of one’s “elder” or “eldest” children. Moreover, when a man has two sons his older son is also his oldest son, and his elder son is also his eldest son. Those who would (and frequently and foolishly do) argue otherwise give us pedants a bad name that we do not deserve.

On another note, I love the self rescuing princess T.

Steven (who is NOT an English major)