WEeding Awards, vol. 8
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Prologue
The comments are now complete. Click on the links below to jump to my discussion of each text:
Contents
38: Speech to NFIB Summit, by John McCain
39: (More) Remarks on Retirement Security, by Barack Obama
40: “Drill Here! Drill Now! Pay Less!,” by [...]
WEeding Awards, vol. 7
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Prologue
I’m on the brink of declaring Barack Obama the WEediest writer in history. He always delivers. (Of course, there’s always the question of who actually writes his material. Politicians and their speechwriters . . . .)
With Obama’s nomination victory speech [...]
WEeding Awards, vol. 6
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Prologue
Seven more articles win WEedies, this week, and six of them come from conservatives. Volume 6 begins with four pieces on what we might call “domestic” issues, and ends with three pieces on “war” issues.
No less than two pieces tie [...]
WEeding Awards, vol.5
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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 works are honored come from both [...]
WEeding Awards, vol.4
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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 [...]
WEeding Awards, vol. 3
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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 [...]
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, [...]
WEeding Awards, vol. 1
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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. [...]
