I JUST heard someone say "By the time I got the information it was a mute point" and I giggled. Then I realized he was one of the attorneys and I laughed because I started thinking "Mute court much have been a bitch..." and picturing a trial where everyone's lips were moving but there was no sound.

Here's another word misuse - I see a fair amount of personals ads that say to the effect, "If my ad peaks your interest...."

Not a common one at all, but I think I mentioned the fanfic where Eric got "eternal" bleeding.

Here's another word misuse - I see a fair amount of personals ads that say to the effect, "If my ad peaks your interest...."

In audio personal ads I've heard more than a few people describe themselves as "articalit".

Jessica, you have a Flip video camera, yeah? Mine has been freezing up and I don't know how to fix it.

Hey, some actual health care policy arguments from republicans. Yea.

New Objections to Baucus Health Care Proposal

I think there are even some, well 'some' might be too strong a word, maybe 'a couple of', reasonable idea(s).

The committee documents show that Mr. Grassley has reservations about this approach. He believes that “the individual responsibility to have health coverage should be reconsidered and replaced with a reinsurance policy to ensure that affordable health coverage is available to everyone in a voluntary system, with a lower overall cost for the package,” one document says.

I think a reasonable idea to consider. I believe this was a good idea that Kerry had in his 2004 campaign.

The third Republican in the group, Senator Olympia J. Snowe of Maine, is pushing another idea to make insurance readily available. She urged her colleagues to “allow private insurance companies to offer national plans, with uniform benefit packages that are offered across state lines.”

This sounds reasonable as long as it isn't a mechanism to avoid state regulation sort of like how all credit cards seem to come from Delaware.

Then there is the expansion of Medicaid causing problems for state budgets, though I think the phase in of state vs. federal obligation might be a reasonable approach that Rs would object to.

Anyhow it's good to hear of some actual policy debate, even if I don't like a lot of the Repub ideas.

I'm totally waiting for a personals ad saying she won't respond to replies with bad grammar or spelling... and the ad itself has a grammar or spelling mistake. Because then I'd reply just to point out the error.

But so far I haven't found an example of this. So it seems there is a high correlation between someone's dislike of writing mistakes of others and their own lack of mistakes. Oh well.

Not a common one at all, but I think I mentioned the fanfic where Eric got "eternal" bleeding.

Dude's going to need to drink a lot of fluids.

Maybe he could get a bottomless cup of coffee.

This sounds reasonable as long as it isn't a mechanism to avoid state regulation sort of like how all credit cards seem to come from Delaware.

There's no way it could function otherwise, not without imposing some pretty rigid federal standards. And gee, how well is that likely to play?