Category Archives: education

  1. Comics, Maypoles, and Book Banning

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    March 12, 2022 by libroshombre

    Carl Sagan is certainly missed; apart from his glowing cosmological credentials and general brilliance, he was insightful while maintaining his …
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  2. Pop-Tarts, Frogs, and the Alamo

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    November 6, 2021 by libroshombre

                “Woman Sues Kellogg Over Lack of Strawberries in Strawberry Pop-Tarts,” a recent Washington Post article, got me considering how …
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    Category: animals, battles, books, education, grammar, libraries, public libraries, sayings | Tags: , , ,

  3. Hissies, Conniptions, and Negligees

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    March 24, 2020 by libroshombre

    “Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within,” according to Ralph Waldo Emerson.  That’s true enough, but, …
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  4. Vulgarity, Punctuation, and Doris Day

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    April 7, 2017 by libroshombre

    Ebenezer Cobham Brewer knew vulgarity when he encountered it, and there’s even a selection of them in the section titled …
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    Category: computers, ebooks, education, Library of Alexandria, reading, Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , ,

  5. Extremes, Restraint, and Mae West

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    March 30, 2016 by libroshombre

      Extreme language constantly assaults us these days, and last week an Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) colleague and I …
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    Category: education, language, restraint, Uncategorized, words | Tags: , , , , , , ,

  6. Abecedarians, Librarians, and Profane Homophones

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    August 14, 2014 by libroshombre

    We’re lucky that our school district pays attention to its libraries, since that’s where students get grounded in navigating the …
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    Category: education, intellectual freedom, libraries, parts of speech, words | Tags: , , , , , , , , ,

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