Calpundit had not one, but two posts attacking the idea that Democrats should be trying to enlarge their voting base by getting “new voters” instead of appealing to “swing voters” as they normally do. I couldn’t disagree with Calpundit more. John Emerson (aka Zizka!), in replying to the original Nick Confessore piece, writes: One reason [...]
I often find it painfully tedious to read NY Times stories which try to individualize social problems, but this one, about one woman’s struggle against poverty, is very well written. The people who received promotions tended to have something that Caroline did not. They had teeth. Caroline’s teeth had succumbed to poverty, to the years [...]
The word “crore” is Indian English for 10,000,000. (One crore = 100 lakhs.) I first encountered this word in articles about the Bollywood film industry. Bollywood writing has its own particular style that, like stuff on the E! Entertainment channel (e.g. “Bennifer“), is hard to understand if you don’t follow industry gossip regularly. Usually, crore [...]