Mitch McConnell released an ad yesterday morning featuring a bunch of scenes from Kentucky, including shots of a basketball team in blue and white celebrating a national championship win.
This seems like a fairly inconsequential mistake, unless you know anything about Kentucky basketball. UK fans feel roughly the same way about Duke as the Palestinians feel about the Israelis.
They immediately replaced it with a shot of current UK star Julius Randle…which is, of course, a huge no-no with the NCAA. They immediately got a cease and desist letter from UK.
Mitch, dude, whoever is making videos for you is not on your side.
What school did you go to that spent one day on cursive handwriting? That was a major part of several years of elementary school. It eventually got combined with other things, like spelling, but handwriting was still graded and we still practiced.
Maybe learning to read cursive would take a day, but writing in cursive is a skill like any other. You may understand the theory after one day, but you would not be able to do it smoothly, quickly, and legibly.
I’m left-handed and I use cursive regularly. It enables me to use a $2.00 device called a “notebook” that I take with me everywhere to write. No batteries, no recharging, very handy indeed. It allows me to transform what would ordinarily be down time spent standing in line or waiting in offices into productive time. Of course, I have to retype it all into a computer at home, but that takes little time and since I’ve already written the words, it becomes part of the editing process. I suppose I could do the same with block letters, but there’s another advantage … it’s not all that easy for others to read my cursive. So … cursive for the win.
Put me down as a European scratching his head about all the cursive hate. That’s how I learned to write (printing here being limited to learning one’s ABCs, basically) and it’s 10x times faster than printing since you don’t have to reposition your hand all the time and one letter flows into the next.
As a left-hander it was annoying back in high school because teachers wanted us to write with fountain pens - now *that *was a right mess. The first few months I came home with blue hands and blue pages. But with ballpoint or felt tip pens it’s the king’s road to proper doctor-style chickenscratching !
To illustrate: a wildly popular shirt among UK fans since last year reads “I Still Hate Laettner”. This is in reference to a UK-Duke game that happened in 1992. (See also the “Duck Fuke” shirt, popular ever since said game.)
Well, that’s why I said “legible to others”. For notes for my own use, my crappy cursive will do, but if I ever have to communicate with others, I type or print.
Besides, you pay for notebooks? I get them free from work.
For some reason there is, here in the colonies, a persistent mythology about a “Revolution” that supposedly happened in the late 18th Century. Actually, the British tax collectors simply stopped coming around. No one knows why; the prevailing theory is that everybody in HMG thought somebody else was handling the colonies. Please don’t tell them.
I stand to state my firm disapproval (snicker) of such dastardly goings-on! The very idea (chuckle) of defrauding Tea Party enthusiasts (giggle) for contributions that in no wise (chortle) advance the agenda of the Tea Party is wholly unacceptable!
I denounce, renounce and condemn in the strongest possible vigor!
Heh, I actually felt a moment of outrage about the Teabagger groups not spending money on the candidates before I realized that them wasting/stealing it is in fact a better outcome. Of course, not taking the money from their victims in the first place would be best.
My notebook demands are very specific: gotta be spiral bound, with a stiff backing so they don’t bend when you try to write on them, and small enough to hold easily in one hand while writing, but as large as possible so I’m not writing one word per line. The Wired 5x7" spiral bound works perfectly. I can also attach a pen to the spiral binding, very handy. All I’ve ever seen at work are those cheap perfect bound yellow notepads, the filthy cheap bastids!
Are notebooks that support printing hard to find where you live? Where I live they’re so ubiquitous that they don’t go to the trouble of mentioning it on the label.
