It's scared a lot of us too, for exactly the same reason.

Emily's got the right of it. It bugs the hell out of me that some jackass in a power suit who cannot even pronounce 'nuclear' has co-opted our self-image as a country and perverted into something that allows for justifying torture by lying about terrorists to conceal lust for oil and money. And then condemn those who disagree with those methods as unpatriotic or weak.

The Scola to the rescue. Thanks!

Capitalize after a colon, but not after a semicolon.

Not always. Like in Shir's question --

Also, grammar question: after semicolon or colon, do I need to capitalize?

"after" should not be capitalized.

So much peace~ma for you, Askye.

Not always

OK. Now I need more information. Why is that?

(You see? Hebrew is so much more simple in those case. We don't have to deal with capitalization. It's all either in "capitalized" fonts (used mostly for publications of most sorts), and the "non-capitalized" fonts, used for handwriting. And they don't mix).

In good news, I get to see Sox & family this weekend. My DH invested in new balloons (for balloon animals) in the hope that Iris would ask him for one or two or ten.

Grins. He'd better bank on 10.

Well, I went to physical therapy this morning. Was OK, I guess. Worked on loosening up the muscles around my shoulder, because I've been tensing them to guard my shoulder joint, and I need to be able to move them freely before I can really work on anything else.

Why is that?

IIRC, you capitalize after a colon when you're using it to start a list (You capitalize after a colon in the following three cases: First,...), but not when it's separating clauses.

As to why, because somebody decided giving pervy schoolboys senseless and arcane rules to memorize would leave them with less time to touch themselves in naughty ways.

peace ~ma for Askye and Anna

I forgot to buy spoons and I'm eating yogurt with a fork again.

I guess my mind isn't as dirty as I thought as I totally don't get the 2-3 chickens and a cow thing.

because somebody decided giving pervy schoolboys senseless and arcane rules to memorize would leave them with less time to touch themselves in naughty ways.

Actually pretty close. A lot of rules of English grammar were invented when Latin was the language every educated European needed. So many of the rules were invented on the grounds:

1) That the rules of English should be made as much like the rules of Latin as possible to make it easier to teach Latin

2) That the rules of English should be made as much like Latin as possible because Latin was a superior language, and the more English could be forced to resemble in the better.

Actually, not sure that applies to punctuation. Punctuation rules seem to be more recent, as do standardized spelling rules. Which makes Amych's theory seem more and more likely.