Keith Obermann

And finally, as promised, a Special Comment about the shout of “You Lie” during the presidential address to the joint session of Congress last night on the matter of health care reform. Read Full Story

Salvia Greggeii Recently, Newt Gingrich apologized in well-rehearsed, if poorly delivered Spanish an ill-advised comment he made in reference to a Sonia Sotomayor ruling, doubling the problem he created when he said that “bilingual education is teaching the language of the ghetto.” In saying such, Gingrich possibly offended millions of Spanish speaking people in the United States. Keith Olbermann in commenting on Gingrich’s political “double gaffe,” said: “He (Gingrich) even used the active tense in his apology.” What Olbermann meant to say was active voice . “Voice inflects a verb to show whether its subject is the doer of the action indicated or is ... Read Full Story

Keith Olbermann Anchor, ‘Countdown’ • Profile Finally tonight as promised, a Special Comment on the passage, last week, of Proposition Eight in California, which rescinded the right of same-sex couples to marry, and tilted the balance on this issue, from coast to coast. Some parameters, as preface. This isn’t about yelling, and this isn’t about politics, and this [...] Read Full Story

  Euclid, salvia Although millenarians* have gone away, presumably only to reemerge in 2099, we are well-along in the new millennium, one which apparently has not swayed from the anxiety of the last age. You can tell by the hyperbolic titles of books and other media marked by the irrevocable phrase end of in the title. Hyperbole is a type of trope or figure of speech marked by exaggeration or overstatement. (Concise Oxford Dictionary).Hyperbole may be used to evoke strong feelings or to create a strong impression, and is not meant to be taken literally (unless you are Francis Fukuyama, see The End of ... Read Full Story

  salvia, Evie's garden “Let’s vote for Obama, …but let’s not go all Kumbaya either,” former California senator Tom Hayden said recently when asked about the upcoming national election. Kumbaya (also Kum Ba Yah), probably comes from Gullah, “a Creole dialect spoken by the former slaves living on the Sea Islands of South Carolina and Georgia.” (Wikipedia). If you study the lyrics of the song, you’d clearly have to be an unempathic human being not to respond to them with compassion: “Hear me crying lord, hear me singing, hear me praying…” Many folk artists have recorded the lyrics over the years. Perhaps too many. ... Read Full Story