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Saturday, June 21st, 2003
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5:47a
Mauro E. Mujica of U.S. English recently wrote an piece for The Globalist attempting to explain why English should be made the official language of the United States of America. It is not so much an essay as a string of unsupported assertions built on a foundation of scientific ignorance and loosely tied together by a distorted view of history. There are so many things wrong with his argument that the best way to demolish it is sentence-by-sentence, paragraph-by-paragraph.
Oddly, most of Mr. Mujica's sentences seem to be paragraphs, but I'll blame that on the editor since so many articles in The Globalist have the same annoying quality. This same editor wrote the brilliant: "[English] is the lingua franca of the modern world — as much as Latin was the common tongue of the Roman Empire. Nonetheless, it is not the official language of the United States — arguably a center of business and communications." I digress.
( English: Not America's Language? By Mauro E. Mujica. Comments by Michael Ruby )
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5:59a - Bad Sleep Choices
I always sleep until right before I have to go to work, whether I start work in the morning, at noon, or in the afternoon. This winds up being a very bad thing when I start work earlier the next day. For instance, I woke up Friday at 4 in the afternoon, which left me enough time to get to Barnes and Noble for my starting time of 5. I had plenty of energy to last until we finally closed at 1:20, after having helped the last of those who lined up for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. However, it left me unable to go to sleep right after work, and indeed, I haven't gotten remotely tired until now, half an hour after sunrise. Unfortunately I have to be back at work at noon, and as I would like to take a bath this morning, I need to be up in four hours. I don't know how to fix this. I suppose regular people choose instead to wake up in the morning and have their free time before work instead of after it, but I don't seem biologically disposed to that choice.
 marginalia, I've already complained about this to you too much already, so it's not addressed to you :)
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