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You Go to War With the TSA You Have

Nowhere Man Wrote: Jan 04, 2010 9:21 PM
Mr. Galen writes, "He has used that time-honored subjunctive construct: 'Mistakes were made," meaning, "mistakes were made by someone else.'"

If I'm not mistaken, and I might be, the construction above is indicative mood (expressed in the passive voice), not subjunctive mood. This point may be a small one to make, but one's point of view is weakened by simple errors; nonetheless, perfection is just an aspiration.

I'll shut up now.

I was on CNN yesterday with a reporter from the New Yorker magazine, a reporter from the Washington Post, and a Democratic strategist meaning it was three against one.

I liked my odds.

Two, or maybe all three, of the other members of the panel were singing hosannas to President Obama for what is a growing fiction, to wit: President Obama has taken ownership of the failures which led to the terrorist attack on that airplane near Detroit.

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