USA Politics (redux)

[Fëanor]

... We are headed for a complicated world in which everyone will have to specify what pronouns they apply to themselves. Worse things have happened. Unlike some other languages, there is no official specification of English, so we have to follow usage.

I guess they ought to add 'Preferred Pronoun' boxes to our email & 'phone Contact info -- not to mention company HR files. 

But I see potential conflict between personal choice and general usage.  Suppose, say, a person doesn't want to follow general usage.  So Xi/Xem/Xir it hasn't yet entered general usage but apparently it's some folks personal preference.

[Karl Henning]

I guess they ought to add 'Preferred Pronoun' boxes to our email & 'phone Contact info -- not to mention company HR files. 

But I see potential conflict between personal choice and general usage.  Suppose, say, a person doesn't want to follow general usage.  So Xi/Xem/Xir it hasn't yet entered general usage but apparently it's some folks personal preference.

Aye. I shan't worry about Xi/Xem/Xir until /i meet someone who uses them.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Well-balanced, and fair, article about Pelosi in 2022 and beyond.

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/12/12/politics/nancy-pelosi-house-democrats-leadership-2022/index.html

[Karl Henning]

House Jan. 6 committee votes to hold Meadows in contempt for defying subpoena

[milk]

Well-balanced, and fair, article about Pelosi in 2022 and beyond.

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/12/12/politics/nancy-pelosi-house-democrats-leadership-2022/index.html

"Where do we go from here?" one member said, expressing the stress. "I don't know."

[Karl Henning]

Jennifer Rubin:

Katyal argues: "So as long as the intent was to disrupt the count, it would suffice to be criminal, which of course makes a lot of sense given the grave stakes here." What is true of these two defendants, he adds, "goes for others, including anyone in the White House who aided the disruption." He concludes that "Judge Friedrich's decision, at bottom, is a how-to manual, demonstrating how government officials, including President Trump, can be criminally indicted."

[Karl Henning]

D.C. attorney general sues Proud Boys, Oath Keepers over Jan. 6 attack

[Daverz]

D.C. attorney general sues Proud Boys, Oath Keepers over Jan. 6 attack

Well at least somebody is doing something, while that milquetoast at DOJ cowers under his desk.

[André]

Well at least somebody is doing something, while that milquetoast at DOJ cowers under his desk.

I learned a new word today  .

[Karl Henning]

great word, too!

[Karl Henning]

After extraordinary sacrifice, and years of delay, Alwyn Cashe gets his Medal of Honor

[Fëanor]

I learned a new word today  .

... A fancy way of saying wimp.

[71 dB]

I learned a new word [milquetoast] today  .

I knew the word, but I always thought it is written "milktoast" because that's how it sounds and I have never before seen it written, only heard people say it. 

[Karl Henning]

... A fancy way of saying wimp.

I also like the term pantywaist.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

D.C. attorney general sues Proud Boys, Oath Keepers over Jan. 6 attack

I was delighted to hear that news à la good ole NPR! 

PD

[André]

I knew the word, but I always thought it is written "milktoast" because that's how it sounds and I have never before seen it written, only heard people say it. 

It's from a 1930s popular cartoon character, Caspar Milquetoast, The Timid Soul



These could be 2021 Xmas wishes !! 

[BasilValentine]

Since the rest of you are, as usual, ignoring the big issues of the day, I'll ask what's on everyone's mind: Will Kanye West be indicted for election tampering in Georgia or will he let his agent take the fall?

[71 dB]

It's from a 1930s popular cartoon character, Caspar Milquetoast, The Timid Soul



These could be 2021 Xmas wishes !! 

Interesting! I believe this cartoon it totally unknown in Finland (perhaps everywhere outside the US?).

[Herman]

It's from a 1930s popular cartoon character, Caspar Milquetoast, The Timid Soul

I'm surprised at 71B saying he'd never seen it in writing, since I regard it as one of those typical print-only words that no one ever uses in spoken language  -  a class of words I'm particularly tickled by....

[Karl Henning]

Fla. man sentenced to 5 years for attacking police, the longest Jan. 6 riot sentence yet

And, separately:

Judge rejects Fox News request to dismiss Dominion Voting's defamation lawsuit over election claims