Attacks on English

“Your writing is a little repetitious”, said the guy who had just told me my writing was a little repetitious. ♪ My English teacher looked at me and said, “You don’t plan your sentences well”, he said, looking at me. ♪ I’ve come up with a synonym for “synonym”: “Word-doppelganger” ♪ I was up all […]

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Dr. Seuss: Is He Hitler?

Is Dr. Seuss worse than Hitler? I didn’t think so, before, but I’ve been hearing things lately that have caused me to doubt myself. Obviously, he wasn’t blatant about it. He didn’t write To Think that I Signed a Petition to Keep You from Buying a Home on Mulberry Street or Mr. Braun’s a Jew, […]

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Revenge of the Mistaken Dragon

We had a sweet life when we first moved to Virginia; but, one day my parents didn’t come home. Vowing revenge on whoever did it, I left for Japan that very evening and, when I got there, I found the greatest martial arts teacher there. It took six months to persuade him to take me […]

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