Thursday, March 30, 2006

Life Coaches

http://nationalreview.com/blyth/blyth200603300725.asp

I gotta get me one.

Oh, and by the way, for you grammar nuts out there, which I assume is all of you, the media ARE, because "media" is the plural of medium. Similarly, data are, not is, and you can only have one phenomenon, because when you have more than one, they are phenomena.

10 comments:

Anonymous said...

You have quite an agenda there.

Judi said...

Learned something there -- Myrna Blyth's background perhaps explains the day the Ladies Home Journal arrived for the office waiting room, and I just felt this overwhelming urge to cancel the subscription, which I did.

It seemed every article which wasn't pushing Republicans was pushing prayer.

Dad said...

James, my life coach told me I needed one.

Judi, awesome! You smote two evils with one blow. You could be a life coach!

Dad said...

Very good, James. It went right over my head. Fortunately, my astute and literate wife brought it to my attention. It seems agenda/agendum has morphed some over the years, as, I suppose, media/medium has and will.

Anonymous said...

Can anyone resist a good grammar joke?

Judi said...

Wonder how many "Myrnum's" make up Ms. Blyth???

Politics and religion do not seem necessary to recipes, home decorating, and fashion,and I understand there is now research suggesting not even to good health.

Anonymous said...

Mom, does that make you a Smyrnum?

Judi said...

Every state allegedly has a Smyrnum, taken together being Smyrna, NY, Smyrna, Delaware, etc., hence we live in a collective of municipalities -- Smyrna.

Actually, worth looking into how the original Biblical Smyrna came to appear to be plural.

Anonymous said...

It turns out that old-school Smyrna was named after an Amazon queen. How cool is that?

Dad said...

More on those evil prayers and good health:

http://www.scrappleface.com/?p=2229