365 Project: Day 9
Ok, so I didn’t exactly take any pictures today. I should, right? But I slacked off today and just did homework. But if I had gone photographing today, it’s very possible that I would have taken a picture like this, of my roommate’s lovable dog.
This song came up just as I was starting to write this, and I remembered how much i liked getting mentally lost in the corridors of its warm fuzz in middle school. Ah, the good old days.
It’s a better place than where my mind’s been most of the last two days, grieving and discomforted by the shooting in Tucson. Putting my academic hat on, this has been the most important analysis about it that I’ve seen. An excerpt:
At another, Loughner makes extraordinarily obscure comments about language and grammar, suggesting that the government engages in “mind control on the people by controlling grammar.” That’s not the kind of idea that’s very common out there, even on the Internet. In fact, I think it’s pretty clear that Loughner is taking ideas from Patriot conspiracy theorist David Wynn Miller of Milwaukee. Miller claims that the government uses grammar to “enslave” Americans and offers up his truly weird “Truth-language” as an antidote. For example, he says that if you add colons and hyphens to your name in a certain way, you are no longer taxable.
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