The Michigan Silverback: History of the English Language.... In 10 Minutes?

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

History of the English Language....
In 10 Minutes?

(If you like the subject matter and have several hours, this course (available at www.thegreatcourses.com or at most good public libraries) is an awesome introduction to the history of the English language. If you only have ten minutes, however... the above ain't bad at all.)

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THE TATTERED REMNANTS: INVISIBLE HEROES WHO MAKE OUR WORLD
Short bios of some exceedingly cool people.

OTHER GOODIES:

You might live in Michigan if....
(Or: signs…. Or symptoms?)

This just in.
(Or: Four score & seven years ago….)

How Fannie Mae, Freddy Mac, & The Democrats Screwed YOU
(Or: No Sex, but Lies and Videotape)

Zombie Spokesman Denounces Voter ID Law
(Or: George Romero for President?)

Romney's Good. Newt is Great.
(And the smarmy jerk host is an outrage.)

Tattered Remnants #045: The McGovern Brothers
(Or: In the Military, protest is subtle.)

Twenty Five Years Ago......
("Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall!")

Why I'll Christmas Shop at Nordstrom's This Year
(Or: Less is More)

White House Sez: No Space Aliens
(Oh, Really?)

Remember.... Remember.... ?
(Or: Wearing A Hollywood Promotional Giveaway Does Not Make You A Revolutionary.)

The Wisdom of Quark
(Or: Just Because It’’s Trek Doesn’t Mean It’s Stupid)

Occupy Whatsit: Racist
(Or: The Occupunks: 99% Black-Free!)

SithCorp
(Or: I Think I Used To Work For This Guy)

Hey, Righthaven! Copyright *THIS*!
(Or: Justice.)

Hey It's Pomplamoose.....
(They’re Not Famous Yet But They’re Gonna Be)

Tattered Remnants #044: A Forgotten Vanguard: USS Reuben James
(“…that these dead shall not have died in vain.”)

Correcting the Record on Newt's "Deathbed Divorce"
(Or: Doesn’t matter, alas. The lie’s out there.)

Pure. Freaking. Genius.
(“My blackberry is completely frozen!”)

Beware Those "Eco-Safe" Curly Bulbs!
(Or: Watch your step.)

Terror in Bosnia: Not Brought To You By Bosniacs
(Or: Serbocrazies in five… four… three…..)

"Nature is much more clever than we had imagined"
(Hydrocarbons, carbohydrates… what’s the difference?)

"She* turned me on to a Newt!"
(Prof. Karen Siegemund, this one’s fer you.)

Eminiar, Vendicar..... and Earth
(Or: Sometimes you wonder what planet you’re on.)

Qdaffy Duck: An Ex-Parrot, Pining for the Fjords
(Or: Ding, dong….)

The American Eagle And The EEEELEGULS
(Or: What are we going to do about Maria?)

It's time for a little pick-me-up.
(Or: Thank you Byron McGregor, wherever you are.)

Is the Constitution racist?
(Answer: No. Next question?)

A Kiddie Cartoon Every Politico Must See. Daily.
(If not more often.)

Revolutionary Wannabees On The March
(Or: Occupunks on a rampage.)

Sarah Palin votes no.
(Alas.)

GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY!!!
(Or: Arf, she said.)

The Nickel Mines Horror: 2006-2011
(Or: Saluting A Tiny, Tattered Remnant)

Take That, Mel Gibson....
(Or: Remembering A REAL Patriot.)

Two American Pictures
(Insert 2000 words here)

The Tattered Remnant #43: Andrée de Jongh
(Or: War hero. Nurse for lepers. Tattered Remnant.)

How To Catch Wild Pigs
(Or: A Lesson in Penmenship.)

FASTER. THAN. LIGHT. PARTICLES. DISCOVERED.
(Or: Beam Me Up Scotty!)

Barack Obama and the Girl on the Swing
(Or: How Our President Is Like a Maxfield Parrish Painting)

Amish Mugshots?
(Or: They may look strange but at least they’re standing up for their beliefs)

REPOST: How $1 = 1 Cent
(Or: Inflation is all hell.)

A Litany For Internet Thugs
(Or: They said they didn’t have a prayer. Now they do.)

Who for President?
(Or: Just thinking’…..)

Economics 101: The Basics
(Or: TANSTAAFL it.)

You May Be A Geek If.....
(Or: Look for the signs.)

Little Green Football "Outs" Fjordman.....
(Or: Charles Johnson actually gets someone right this time.)

The Not-So-Bright Side of the Moon?
(Or: Maybe not. There’s a planet up there just waiting for us. Let’s go.)

The Squire of Gothos Has Decreed..... and
Charles Johnson Sends Me Web Traffic!
(Or: Charles Johnson Shows his Reliability As a Factual Source)

MS-DOS, 30 years old today!
(Or: del *.* /s.)

Anders Behring Breivik: The Return of the Blond Beast.
(Or: Okay, he’s a Racist White Guy. That Doesn’t Make Him a Teabagger.)

Post-Soviet Awesomeness
(Or: Graffiti and Vandalism as Art.)

Announcing Pluto's Fourth Moon
(Or: That’s no moon….)

The Most Fabulous Object In The World: An Essay In Movie Clips
(Or: RLK Stretches Fair Use to Its Limit)

In Re Casey Anthony Verdict
(Or: Better A Hundred Guilty Go Free….)

Roads to Moscow and
Greatest Infamy: June 22, 1941
(Or: 9/11 times 6,666.66)

Telegraph Accuses Sarah Palin of Sending Death Threat
(Or: It’s All In The Headline)

Why I'm No Longer So Keen On The Death Penalty
(Or: Gandalf Stormcrow. Smart man.)

THIRTY DEAD CHILDREN FOUND ON FARM!!!!
(Or: It must be true! We heard it on the Internets!)

JUNE 6, 1944 -- NEVER FORGET D-DAY!
(Or: In Remembrance of Greater Men than We)

Lawrence Eagleburger, RIP
(Or: The Original Very Big Man on Campus)

Dr Death Meets The Real Deal
(Or: Good nite, sweet prince, and hosts of demons see thee to thy rest.)

With Thanks To Our (Almost) Nameless Site Pest
(Or: How Some Fools are Self-Refuting)

Derivatives - A Beery Simple Primer
(Or: Bottoms up!)

Ratko Mladic arrested!
(Or: Justice at Last.)

Assassin Loughner Not Competent To Stand Trial
(Or: Just As We Thought. He was an Apolitical Nut All Along.)

Looks Like We're Still Here.....
(Or: It’s the End of the World as We Know It, and we feel fine.)

Letter from Rome, May 21, 2011
(Or: …or is it?)

Six Flags Over Ozymandias
(Or: Look Upon My Works, Ye Mighty…..)

Tribute to The Orthodox Victims of Communism
(....of which there were millions)

"In London There Was Such A Man."
(Or: The Reason Why This Blog Is Not In German.)

Enough with the Crusader Rabbits already!
(Or: "Let's You and Him Fight". As Breivik would show us, this is a bad idea.)

Congratulations, Mr. President.
(Or: Credit Where Credit’s Due.)

Obama's Birth Certificate Released - Not A Joke
(Or: So that Nonsense is Over. Let’s Concentrate on Beating Him.)

RIP Phoebe Snow - A One Hit Wonderful
(Or: A Heavenly Voice and A Wonderful Mom Goes To Her Reward.)

"It Was Twenty Years Ago, Todayyy....."
(Or: In remembrance of my father.)

And Now... Some Very Good News Indeed.
(He Is Indeed Risen.)

Time asks: What if There Is No Hell?
(Answer: Then Genocide Is Perfectly OK)

150 years
(Or: On The War Between The Slave States And the Rest of Us)

On Wisconsin
(Or: To Those Who Think the GOP Stole the Court Election….)

Adieu, mon ami, adieu.
(Et mon amour.)

What Really Happens...When We Eat The Rich?
(Or: Answer: Nothing Good.)

A Lenten Reflection from Cracked.Com
(A Source of Unending Wisdom)

My favorite April Fool's Day Joke--Which Isn't.
(Or: Kremvax, We Adore Thee!)

The Beggar and the Pope
(Or: A Story to Both Break and Warm The Heart)

Kill Qdaffy? Bad idea. Very, very bad idea.
(….even if the Libyans did shoot Doc Brown.)

We've Got Mail!
((....hate mail, But mail....))

"Dust Thou Art"
(Or: A Lenten Story Worthy of Remembrance)

....for one bad idea.
(Or: Socialism, progressivism, whatever. Bad idea.)

There Are Times You Should STFU
(Not to Self: Remember This)

Weakest President Ever? Yes--to be kind.
(Or: Sometimes our British Friends Get It Right.)

Oh, no. There went Tokyo. Nyuk. nyuk.
(Or: Quake + Tsunami = No Laughing Matter.)

To my friends grieving the outcome in Wisconsin:
(Or: Remember the Wheel Turns)

Spew from the Serbian Camp
(Or: Some Enemies are an Honor to Have)

David Broder, R.I.P.
(Or: In Remembrance of The Grand Old Man of Old World Journalism)

Note to Julia Gorin: Genocide bad.
(Or: Srebrenica Is Not Just Scary To The Muslims.)

St. Gregory the Great On.... the Tattered Remnant
(Or: Good to See I'm Not Alone In This.)

Supreme Court Upholds The First Amendment!
(....whether we like it or not.....)

A Message from Zawahiri (An Oldie But Goodie)
(Or: Sometimes The Bad Guys Get It)

Now They Are Coming for Us
(A Guest Editorial From - David C. Stolinsky, M.D.)

Anti-Semitism in Action in San Francisco
(Or: How Leftist Fanatics Are Trying to Make Their City Juedenrein)

Bernard Nathanson, RIP (1926-2011)
(Or: In Memory of a Modern Apostle Paul)

Frances Kissling Blinks!
(Or: Even She Thinks The Prolife Forces are Winning)

Johnny Walker, Red
(Or: They Say He’s Adjusted Well to Prison. Good.)

Jack Daniels Explains the Deficit
(After this I’ll Need a Drink Too)

Slavery Organization Decries Abolitionists
(Or: Suhpraze, suhpraze, suhpraze….)

Happy 2nd B-Day, Infinite/Silverback!
(Or: What We Believe)

Apollo 14, 40 Years Later
(Or: Houston, We Have a REAL Problem. We Have No Space SHip. And No Space Program.)

The Asteroids of Europe: A Short Guide To
The Nations of the Former Yugoslavia
(Or: ♪♪And It’s One, Two, Three, What are We Peacekeeping For?♪♪)

We Like This. A Lot.
(Dedicated To Certain Members Of My Nearest and Dearest. You know who you are.)

We got mail!
(…if you can consider this writing.)

"Congress Shall Pass No Law"
(Re: In Celebration of Somalia, The Libertarian Dream)

Actual Comments From South Carolina Troopers
(Or: Don’t Get Pulled Over There)

Birth Certificate Mystery Solved
(Or: Can We Talk About Something Else Now?)

Todd Palin: Not A Whoremonger
(Again, Suhpraze, suhpraze, suhpraze….)

Holes In The World: A January 23rd Reflection
(Or: A New Meaning for "MIA: You Are Not Forgotten")

If Charles Johnson Had Blogged in 1944
(Or: The Squire of Gothos Jams On His Harpsichord, Again)

Halfway There
(Or: Two Years Down, Two To Go. Tick, Tock.)

Republicans Want To Kill Old People!
(Or: You Mean Republicans Just Like That Doctor in Philadelphia?)

To The Stuxnet Hackers: Bravo! Bravo!
(Or: They Said Computers Can Help Keep The Peace. Yep.)

Palin: "Blood Libel"? Yes. - Holocaust Survivor's Son
(Or: This pretty much settles THAT issue.)

With Thanks to Srebrenica-Genocide.blogspot.com
(Or: ...non sum dignis.)

Tucson/The Gabby Giffords Shooting
(Or: Whodunit? Jared Loughner. For Reasons Entirely His Own.)

On Memory, Denial and Forgetfulness:
A Srebrenica New Year's
(Or: This One Is Dead Serious.)

Greatest Country Ever? Absitively. Posilootly.
(Or: Say it again. Greatest. Country. Ever.)

Haikus for 2011
(Or: This Line Has Five Beats....)

Hef's Hozed Hos Exposed (But Not In A Good Way)
(Or: It Turns Out That The Suave is De Boner)

The Sign of Blood: St. Thomas Becket
(Or: It's Bad to Be the King's Enemy)

A Srebrenica Christmas: History Is What Happens To You
(Or: How I 'Defecate[d] on the Serbs on Christmas' - Julie Gorin)

Nine-and-Forty: A Birthday Reflection
(Or: Happy Barf-day to Me.)

Richard Holbrooke, R.I.P.
(Love Him or Hate Him, He Made Our World (and decisively changed my life))

Donkeys Coming Home to Roost
(Or: The Bloom Is Off Obama)

Fairbanks 1-8-7: Columnist Calls for Sarah Palin's Murder
(Or: The Shape of Things to Come)

Michelle Malkin and the EEELEGUL AAAALIEN Problem
(Or: Why A Filpina Immigrant Who Hates 'Wetbacks' Is All Wet)

Memtok's Thumb: On The Uses and Abuses of Evolution
(Or: why Evolution is OK in Biology Class But Not In Civics)

NEWSWEEK, now $1, Sits Shiva
(or: "For I Am Become Debt, The Destroyer of Worlds")

?Talk Like an Egyptian.... ?
(or: What The President Can Learn By Reading The Morning Papyri)

Sixty-Five (More or Less)
(or: Election Night is done. Whaddawedonow??!?!)

Album Covers
(Or: Raiders of the Lost Art)

"If Tea Partiers are such deluded fools....."
(....then why are they doing so well?)

JP2 Cultural Center Goes Kaput....
(or: On The End of A Very Expensive Papal Ring-Kiss)

The Rules of Bureaucratic Warfare
(...compiled only after I ticked off my Honcho for the last time.)

Bosnia: After A Decade, It Still Haunts
(The stench of Genocide never leaves you after your nose is rubbed in it.)

"Life is Aisha"
("The Meaning Of Her Name")

We Do Not Need "Ruthless" War On A Billion People
(or: War with All Islam? Stupid Idea–and Unnecessary)

China Surpassing the USA? Not So Fast....
(or: Throwaway Babies make for a Throwaway Superpower, And Not Just for Us.)

The 25 Worst Americans?
(or: Surprise: Obama Doesn't Even Qualify)

JournoList: A Symptom, Not The Disease
(or: They're Only Sorry They Got Caught!)

Peter Hitchens Whines About America (Agaaaaain)
(or: The Price We Pay For Having a Christopher Hitchens' Smarter Brother Is Putting Up With His Weaker Moments)

Don't Discuss Religion When Standing On A Bridge
(Inexplicably, The Second Most Popular Post in the History of This Blog....But Then Emo Philips Is A Lot Funnier Than I Am)

Before 9/11 There Was 7/11
(or: Remembering the Srebrenica Massacre)

Obama On The Couch?
(or: Robin of Berkeley, who presents a rare miss)

There's A Hole In The Bottom Of The Sea
(A New Take On A Children's Class-Sick)

Note to Self: Don't Let This Happen To YOU!
(or: As if!)

The Deplorable Word
(or: Watch Your Mouth Or We'll Watch It For You)

Adventures in Interfaith Understanding
(or: Maybe The Muslims Are Onto Something)

To Bee Or Not To Bee
(or: Bee All That You Can Bee)

"Mystic Men Who Eat Boiled Owls"
(or: The Seuss, The Whole Seuss, And Nothing But The Seuss)

ARTICLES ABOUT KENT FAMILY HISTORY

The Arc of a Life:
Martha Ann Kent nee Remski (1922-2010)
(or: I Remember Mama)

Mama Mia!
(or: A Mother's Day Card in Bits and Digits)

Obit for Patrick F. O'Brien (1913-2010)
(or: In Remembrance of Uncle Pat)

Farewell, Aunt Ginnie....
(or: Virginia Potts Kent, R.I.P.: The Beginning of the End of The Greatest Generation Kents)

More Kent Genealogical Stuff
(....of great interest, no doubt.... if you're a Kent.)

A. Leo Kent Rediscovered
(or: On Googling Grandfather)

STILL MORE GOOD STUFF:

(Did I mention The Tattered Remnants?)

I like bats much better than bureaucrats. I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of “Admin”. The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid “dens of crime” that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voice. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the offices of a thoroughly nasty business concern.... -- C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

DEMOCRACY is the word with which you must lead them by the nose.... you can use the word democracy to sanction in his thought the most degrading (and also the least enjoyable) of all human feelings.... under the name of Envy it has been known to humans for thousands of years... you can sanction it -- make it respectable and even laudable -- by the incantatory use of the word democratic. - Screwtape Proposes a Toast

I honor and love you. But I shall obey God rather than you. And while I have life and strength, I shall never cease from the practice and teaching of philosophy. For know that this is the command of God; and I believe that no greater good has ever happened in the state than my service to the God. For I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but first and chiefly to take care about the greatest improvement of the soul. This is my teaching.

And if this is the doctrine that corrupts the youth, then I am a mischievous person.

But if anyone says that this is not my teaching, then he is speaking an untruth. . . . - Socrates, by way of Plato and Steven Schwartz

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THE IM(ATK) CURRENCY BLOG (UNDER CONSTRUCTION)

BLOGS THAT RLK HOLDS IN PARTICULARLY HIGH ESTEEM
(THOUGH HE DON'T NECESSARY ENDORSE EVERYTHING THEY SAY)

Revolution 21 (Hosted by The Mighty Favog)
Transsylvania Phoenix
Left Coast Rebel
Morgan's 2 Cents
Thomas Peter's American Papist Blog

Father Paul’s Homilies (a great guy & a great priest!)

MAINSTREAM MEDIA OUTLETS WORTH FOLLOWING

Fox News
Washington Times
Rush Limbaugh
Fox Nation
Army Times

GENERALLY RELIABLE CONSERVATIVE WEB SITES

AmericanThinker
The WSJ Opinion Journal
Drudge Report
Big Hollywood/Breitbart
NewsMax
Hot Air
National Review Online
Town Hall
NewsBusters
Breitbart TV
Big Government
Instapundit/Pajamas Media
American Thinker
Washington Examiner
Red State
Reason
Human Events
Weekly Standard
First Things
American Spectator
Heritage Foundation
Lucianne.com
CNS News
U.S. of Earth
Neal Boortz
Don Surber
Big Journalism
Volokh Conspiracy
Front Page Magazine
Cato Institute
Commentary
The American
Right Wing News
Daniel Pipes
Mark Levin
Death by 1000 Papercuts
Hugh Hewitt
Freedom’s Phoenix
Media Research Center
Red County
Laura Ingraham
Jammie Wearing Fool
Bloggers News Network
Outside the Beltway
Conservatives for Palin
American Conservative
Blogs Lucianne Loves
Jonathan Turley
Black Five
Steyn Online
Yid With Lid
Michael Yon
The Other McCain

TREAT WITH CAUTION - THE STOPPED CLOCK PRINCIPLE OCCASIONALLY APPLIES HERE.

Free Republic
Michelle Malkin
Glenn Beck
Atlas Shrugs
Jihad Watch
Bill O’Reilly
Dick Morris

TOXIC "CONSERVATIVE" WEB SITES TO BE ACTIVELY SHUNNED BY GROWNUPS

World Net Daily/Michael Savage
Because Michael Wiener AKA "Michael Savage" defamed the parents of autistic children, of whom I have three. (It doesn’t help that they’re birther nuts, either.)

Ann Coulter
Because she's far crueller than necessary and leaves a bad taste in the mouth.

Debbie Schlussel
Ditto the above, plus she hates, and has actively slimed a lot of people I call friends.

VDare
Because they're white supremacists who hate immigrants. (White doe? I beg your pardon?)

Little Green Footballs
We hold this truth to be self-evident.

Blogmocracy ("LGF2")
Because their lead bigmouth "Rodan" is a racist genocide cheerleader who said that I, personally, caused 9/11.

Republican Riot
Because its chief "political comedienne" Julia Goren thinks that a story about children receiving gifts at a war orphanage is an "act of defecation on the Serbs on Christmas."

Lew Rockwell Blog
Libertarianism and racism: the opposite of a Reeses' Peanut Butter Cup. A bad mix.

NumbersUSA
Anti-immigrant hate AND advocacy of ZPG! Another ammonia+chlorine political mixture.

The following should also be shunned on general principle:

MAUREEN DOWD
DAILY KOS
THE HUFFINGTON POST
THE NATION

OTHER POPULAR "CONSERVATIVE" WEBSITES (YA PAYS YER MONEY AND TAKES YER CHANCES)

Say Anything
What Really Happened?
PowerLine
EarthFrisk
Daily Caller
Sean Hannity
Althouse
Moonbattery
Riehl World View
The People’s Cube
Weasel Zippers
WhizBang
Flopping Aces
Legal Insurrection
The Next Right
Linkiest
Patterico
Double Plus Undead
Small Dead Animals
I Own the World
Sweetness and Light
Washington’s Blog
Theodore’s World
All-American Blogger
Radio Equalizer
Protein Wisdom
Jumping in Pools
IMAO
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History of the English Language....
In 10 Minutes?

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