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The First Floor Of The Stoa Of Attalos To Reopen In Athens {Gadling}
Mar 30th 2012 11:56AM Americans need a little bit of translating. In the European system (and British), the first floor of a building is called the "ground floor," so the "first floor" is one story up, whereas Americans would call that the "second floor."
Confederate Flag Gets South Carolina Neighbors Up in Arms {AOL Real Estate}
Sep 27th 2011 6:01PM You choose to ignore one little fact: Things have changed a little bit in the 150 years since the Civil War. Yes, in the 1860s it was the Republicans who were anti-slavery. But now the Republicans are conservative and it's the Democrats who are the friend of minorities (of all kinds). Look at the senators from Southern States (Trent Lott, Lindsay Graham, Newt Gingrich) and then tell me what party they belong to.
Confederate Flag Gets South Carolina Neighbors Up in Arms {AOL Real Estate}
Sep 27th 2011 5:54PM We need to wonder about the woman's motives. She knows that her neighbors consider the flag offensive, so her flying it is provocative. Yeah, it's her right (as long as no jurisdiction has outlawed that flag), but that doesn't mean that she deserves any praise for doing what she's doing.
And to the person who wrote about the Republicans having given us all the civil rights legislation and the Democrats opposed it, it's true that the Southern Democrats (if you want to look back 50 years) opposed it. Most of those guys are long gone. And the South was Democratic because of its reaction to Reconstruction, when Republicans (as Southerners see it) forced African American rights on them. But things have changed and now the conservative Southerners are Republican. Example: Lindsey Graham.
House of the Day: Museum-Quality Mansion {AOL Real Estate}
Sep 22nd 2011 12:57PM I think the author made a mistake when he wrote of "rivers so polluted that they catch fire." That's Chicago, not Cleveland. The body of water in question, called Bubbly Creek, used to be a place where waste from the slaughterhouses was dumped. That dumping ceased long ago but I have heard that Bubbly Creek still occasionally burns.
Chicago's Park Hyatt turns on heat lamps on picketing unionized employees {Gadling}
Jul 23rd 2011 6:10PM Depending on what you mean, I might agree. As I have said on my blog (www.mourningdovehill.com), the (unionized) American worker has priced himself out of the world labor market.
But I also agree that, once upon a time, unions performed a sorely needed function by improving working conditions.
Parents Upset After School Yearbook Lists George W. Bush, Dick Cheney as Worst People of All Time {ParentDish}
Jun 2nd 2011 7:05PM I agree. The students should be allowed to have their views and to express them. A Supreme Court decision of some years ago ruled that a person's First Amendment rights (that includes free speech) do not stop at the schoolhouse door. If parents have different views, well, I don't think that gives them (or school administrators, or school board members) the power to gag their kids.
Made in the USA: The End of 'One Size Fits All' {AOL Small Business}
Feb 19th 2011 12:47PM Note to the author, Ms. Drell: The Malvina Reynolds song you refer to (note: not "reference") is "Little Boxes," not "Little Houses."
Cursive Handwriting Getting Erased as Schools Teach Typing Over Script {ParentDish}
Jan 24th 2011 11:59AM Certainly these days it's important for people to know how to type. And I've noticed that a lot of people (for example my grand niece) don't write in cursive. Despite one comment, cursive has to be faster. But you raise the point I wanted to make: without knowing cursive, how can anyone sign their name? Are we going to go back to signing with an X?
Air Force Developing Surveillance Mega-Blimp Dubbed 'Blue Devil' {Switched}
Jan 20th 2011 8:26PM @luette
The article said it will fly at 20,000 ft so it won't be as easy to shoot down as Iuette seems to think.
Air Force Developing Surveillance Mega-Blimp Dubbed 'Blue Devil' {Switched}
Jan 20th 2011 8:26PM I'm not impressed by its size at 350 ft. That's not even half the size of the famous German zeppelin Hindenburg that crashed in 1937.
The age of the great airships didn't end simply because of the Hindenburg crash. Many American and British airships had crashed because they were destroyed by sudden wind gusts and such.
