dear tim james…
Dear Tim James, Alabama Republican Gubernatorial Candidate,
I've seen your latest campaign video on changing driver's license tests to only English. It's probably not a terrible idea, fiscally speaking… It's just the way you approached the topic in your commercial that just really irked everyone.
You said the following: "This is Alabama. We speak English. If you wanna live here, learn it." You know Mr. James, I don't mean disrespect [actually, yes, yes I do... just a little], but I've only met maybe a few hundred people in this state who speak proper English. So, I've decided that I like your plan… Of course, I don't mean to change the license tests. I mean to challenge every Alabamian to the test of speaking English. I teach in the Alabama public college system, and I read (and hear) the simplest of grammar rules broken every single day. In breaking these basic rules, it proves to me that Alabamians don't even know English, so how can we expect anyone else to follow the same example?
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my recent life’s constant
Over the past few years, many of my friends can vouch for this: I'm not the easiest person to keep up with. Sometimes I spend weeks lingering over decisions, and sometimes I decide in an instant to go somewhere and I'm gone. I can withdraw for days and then jump out into the scene as if I was never gone. Usually, I'm always asked what I'm up to at the time, and it's not the easiest question to answer… mainly because much of the time *I* don't know. At times, my life resembles a scattered flight pattern that an untrained eye has to figure out. But, there is always one thing that everyone knows they can ask about, and one thing that is always a constant for me: hockey.
Well, actually history is too. But, it's the NHL playoffs. So, I'm rolling with this theme for now…
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