The Ubiquitous Grammar Cop

The creators of the "Eagle-Man" auto insurance commercial need to take advertising lessons from these folks .

There are stories like this that make me think: 1) This is part of the reason why people are afraid to fly. 2) This is a big chunk of the reason why I have issues with capitalism.

While I walked around the University of Illinois campus today, I noticed that these (and all types similar) are the latest vogue with the female student body.

I am presently sitting in the Illini Union at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. When I started attending this school almost twenty years ago, the Union and several other university-owned buildings had restaurants and diners in them. The Union had one in its basement, there was the Illini Orange, a fast-food diner in the Six Pack (a confluence of six residence halls in Champaign), and several university-owned commissaries in the residence halls. All of these places were owned by the university and its staff were state employees. If you lived in the dormitories, you could grab a meal at the Union and have it count as breakfast, lunch, or dinner if you had a meal plan through the university. If you craved a late night snack, you could purchase a bag of chips (or something similar) and have it charged to your student account if your pockets carried nothing but lint. Today there is a different scene in the Illini Union and at the Orange (I cannot verify if the residence hall

Conservative schadenfreude is extremely disturbing.