Saturday, May 26, 2012

La bustul marelui porc

Emil Borcean,În Linie Dreaptă
Toţi iubim porcul anonim. Pentru jumări, cârnaţi, cotlete, piftie, muşchiuleţ, costiţă, chifteluţe şi pate.
Unii iubesc în mod deosebit porcul de cenaclu. Pentru volumele de caltaboşi poetici, grohăitul patetic şi calp, pasiunea delirantă a bălăcitului în noroi şi pofta neistovită de putere şi adulare. Azi îi ridică chip cioplit în parcul Icoanei din Bucureşti.
“Un bust al poetului Adrian Păunescu va fi dezvelit sâmbătă, de la ora 12.00, în parcul Grădina Icoanei din Capitală, informează un comunicat remis MEDIAFAX de Primăria Sectorului 2. La eveniment şi-au anunţat participarea numeroase personalităţi ale vieţii culturale româneşti, scriitori, membri ai familiei, prieteni ai artistului.”
În general lumea mănâncă porc, nu se identifică cu el. Altele au fost animalele cu care oamenii au dezvoltat o relaţie magică de-a lungul timpului. Ursul, bizonul, jaguarul, vulturul (ca să mă rezum la câteva exemple de pe cele două continente americane) au fost preţuite în mod special datorită calităţilor şi forţelor primordiale pe care le puteau conferi celui suficient de îndemânatic şi curajos pentru a le răpune în urma unei întreceri pe viaţă şi pe moarte. Supravieţuitorul îşi însuşeste esenţa animalului cucerit şi devine părtaş la lumea spiritelor eterne. Vraciul consfinţeşte, într-o ceremonie sacră la care participă întreg tribul, transferul de potenţă către noul posesor şi reafirmă prin el legătura dintre viaţa tranzientă şi imanenţa lumii dincolo de umbre.
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Friday, September 02, 2011

A new beginning:Teacheru 2.0

To all Teacheru readers: it is time for a new beginning. I am moving to a new house. Thank you all for stopping by and I hope to see you there!


Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Obama-the failure of a marketing product:teleprompter addict with poor writing skills

2008 was the greatest year in marketing history, the year  when a hollow candidate with no record  became the President of the United States.Thanks to Jack Cashill, the Obama marketing product is now presented to the public for what it is: a far from brilliant guy that makes grammatical errors  a decent fifth grader wouldn't.

By Jack Cashill-American Thinker
Via iOwnTheWorld

On November 16, 1990, Barack Obama, then president of the Harvard Law Review, published a letter in the Harvard Law Record, an independent Harvard Law School newspaper, championing affirmative action.

Although a paragraph from this letter was excerpted in David Remnick's biography of Obama, The Bridge, I had not seen the letter in its entirety before this week. Not surprisingly, it confirms everything I know about Barack Obama, the writer and thinker.

Obama was prompted to write by an earlier letter from a Mr. Jim Chen that criticized Harvard Law Review's affirmative action policies. Specifically, Chen had argued that affirmative action stigmatized its presumed beneficiaries.

The response is classic Obama: patronizing, dishonest, syntactically muddled, and grammatically challenged. In the very first sentence Obama leads with his signature failing, one on full display in his earlier published work: his inability to make subject and predicate agree.

"Since the merits of the Law Review's selection policy has been the subject of commentary for the last three issues," wrote Obama, "I'd like to take the time to clarify exactly how our selection process works."

If Obama were as smart as a fifth-grader, he would know, of course, that "merits ... have." Were there such a thing as a literary Darwin Award, Obama could have won it on this on one sentence alone. He had vindicated Chen in his first ten words.

Although the letter is fewer than a thousand words long, Obama repeats the subject-predicate error at least two more times. In one sentence, he seemingly cannot make up his mind as to which verb option is correct so he tries both: "Approximately half of this first batch is chosen ... the other half are selected ... "

Another distinctive Obama flaw is to allow a string of words to float in space. Please note the unanchored phrase in italics at the end of this sentence:

"No editors on the Review will ever know whether any given editor was selected on the basis of grades, writing competition, or affirmative action, and no editors who were selected with affirmative action in mind." Huh?
The entire article here.