Tag: Error

• January 30, 2012

  Meow

  The following is an excerpt from an email exchange that took place between one conversation partner–I guess I’ve renamed her “S.”–and me from this past weekend. I pick up the thread about education in Tuesday’s post. Till then, A. — Dear S., There’s a rock on my desk. (A fine opening line!). It’s black. Away…
• January 14, 2012

  Most Americans are highly apologetic…

  Most Americans are highly apologetic. The few who aren’t are considered, by the campaigners for the apology, to be altogether too arrogant indeed. Yet, in most cases, the effusive may be as much in error as the abstainers, the apology failing to suit, pushing us further apart. The apology’s native soil is the infraction. If…