Eating Animals (The Book), An Opinion

I just finished Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer. Had I not capitalized and italicized the words “eating animals,” you may have interpreted that previous sentence differently. His book largely confirms what I had known prior: factory farms are no good for anyone but the owners, and especially no good for the animals they produce.

I won’t launch into a tirade on the evils of factory farming here. Foer does enough proselytizing in his book. Much as I critique local theatrical productions, I shall comment briefly on the form and the quality of his writing, for one can have the most righteous cause but without eloquence be heard by no one. Or the complete opposite, such as Hitler (who was a vegetarian, by the way).

The End of a Space Era

The last liftoff of the Space Shuttle program was just now, a program that is almost as old as I. I cannot remember a time in my life there was not another STS mission on the horizon. The US government will no longer have any ships to take us into space. What will be our next vehicle? When will we return to the Moon or beyond, perhaps to Mars? How shall we inspire our dreams?

C'mon, (CNN), Adverbs Are Not Adjectives

It was an awful story anyway, but paragraph four begins with the following sentence:

It was not immediately clearly when Anthony could be released.

Immediately clearly … what?! WHAT?! I NEED TO KNOW! Two adverbs after each other, but what do they modify? AARGH!

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via Casey Anthony Sentenced To 4 Years - Denver News Story - KMGH Denver.