The Press: Abuse is inseparable from the proper use of every thing.

"As Madison said, 'Some degree of abuse is inseparable from the proper use of every thing; and in no instance is this more true than in that of the press.' 4 Elliot's Debates on the Federal Constitution (1876), p. 571."

From: New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254, 273 (1964) (Lexis)

AVT (March, 2012)

Res ipsa loquitur, vi et armis, fieri facias.

Res ipsa loquitur, vi et armis, fieri facias.

The thing speaks for itself, by force and arms, that you cause to be made.

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Talking West Coast or East Coast?

They were speaking to me in West Coast. But I had reverted to listening in East Coast. So, I didn’t understand the nuances of what they were telling me.


AVT (Feb., 2012)

Forgotten Rules

I couldn’t remember the rules. So, I made them up as needed.

Lady Bugs and Bees

See:
Lady Bugs and Bees
http://avt777.blogspot.com/2011/12/lady-bugs-and-bees.html
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Signals from Saint Barbara

While peering out from behind the eight
Signals from Saint Barbara seem to weight.

Answers clear as Saint Elmo’s Fire
Why heard now I begin to admire.

On Green Hill the winds do blow
Saint Didacus of Alcalá, Saint Diego.

Should one ever then meet Saint B's fate
May they enjoy the surf and cosmic wake.

While signs above proclaim the Right
Glowing phosphorus forever hides the light.



AVT (Nov. 2011)

The English Lesson (author unknown).

Now if mouse in the plural should be, and is, mice,
Then house in the plural, of course, should be hice,
And grouse should be grice and spouse should be spice
And by the same token should blouse become blice.

And consider the goose with its plural of geese;
Then a double caboose should be called a cabeese,
And noose should be neese and moose should be meese
And if mama's papoose should be twins, it's papeese.

Then if one thing is that, while some more is called those,
Then more than one hat, I assume, would be hose,
And gnat would be gnose and pat would be pose,
And likewise the plural of rat would be rose.




From: http://grammar.about.com/od/pq/g/pluralterm.htm.
(Accessed Sept. 12th, 2011.)

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