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No, my little beasties, I am not a pirate today. Just a tad tired and a wee bit cranky.

Have an advance that's late, did follow ups and half were out of office today (where is everyone? I wanna come too). Did some new subs and read, read, read.

20 subs rejected over the past 2 days.
GASP! 2 requested manuscripts (that makes 4, me thinks)

15 subs left at this moment (not counting fulls), so I gained a ground of 5 lol.

Just goes to show, though, that a good piece of work can get past the "this is what we're taking and only this" barrier. Got a sub today for a Young Adult. No guarantees we'll sign it, but it was great enough and fun enough to grab my attention (whenever an agent has an initial sub list in mind off 3 chapters, that's a good start).

DOUBLE GASP! That'll be another full I ask for. Methinks I must have saved some of the best subs for last (actually, I kinda have a habit of doing that).

Alas, I have no words of wisdom for you today. Have a terrific Tuesday.

Stay literate;)

In the closing sentences of last week’s column about Super Bowl and Super Tuesday, I unwittingly set off some readers’ usage alarms. Talking about terms like Tsunami Tuesday and Super-Duper Tuesday, I wrote: “But none of these amplified epithets have managed to displace good old Super Tuesday.” That’s right — I used none with the plural verb have instead of singular has. I then continued: “A Google News search currently finds nearly 20,000 articles referencing Super Tuesday in the past month, compared to less than 1,000 for Super-Duper Tuesday and less than 500 for Tsunami Tuesday.” Less than 1,000, less than 500? Not fewer? Eagle-eyed commenters were to quick to pick up on both of these usage points. I’d like to say I hid these in the column as a test for readers, but I wasn’t that clever. It does provide a good opportunity, however, to take a look at two of the more contentious debates over English usage in modern times.

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David Domke is Professor of Communication and Head of Journalism at the University of Washington. Kevin Coe is a doctoral candidate in Speech Communication at the University of Illinois. They are authors of the The God Strategy: How Religion Became a Political Weapon in America. To learn more about the book check out their handy website here, to read more posts by them click here. In the post below they look at Obama’s success in South Carolina.

In winning the Iowa caucuses and the South Carolina primary, Democratic Party presidential candidate Barack Obama carried virtually every demographic group. (more…)

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Americans have two “super” events coming up on the national agenda: Super Bowl XLII on Sunday between the Giants and Patriots, followed two days later by Super Tuesday, when about half the country will vote in Democratic and Republican presidential primaries. Fox, the network that is broadcasting the Super Bowl, is even creating a Super mashup before the game begins, with two hours of coverage on Sunday morning mixing politics and football. It’s all quite super, some might say super-duper. So how did we get to this level of superheated superabundancy?

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Some mornings, you just have to admit that the internet is a strange and wonderful place. The kind of place where people post shout-outs to “missed connections” on Craig’s List about hot women reading good books. In case you were wondering “5′9″ medium to slight build” there are lots of beautiful women reading good books at 35th and Madison (the OUP offices.) Keep reading for a guaranteed morning laugh.

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