inflection

I’m doing something different this time around.  When I can, I’m ignoring the inflection of their voices and the roar of the crowds, the color of their skin and their age, their suits and posture, their party and the translations offered up every minute by professional pundits on every channel and across the dial.  I’m reading the words of their speeches and deciding for myself wha

Dan Lehr thinks Sarah Palin needs a voice coach to make her sound all grown up:

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Like a bruise changing color, this is transforming and getting uglier.

I think about when I started blogging and it was a blog about getting married, then trying to conceive. Then an infertility blog, then cancer, marital issues, moving, now what? Divorce? (Am I even ready to use that word?) Separation?

The Tennessee Democratic Party’s blogger takes Bill Hobbs to task for contradicting a press release in the comments of a blog post:

TNDP open letter to Hobbs: Press releases do not always convey tone, inflection, even sarcasm. Issuing false statements on behalf of the Republicans of Tennessee is disingenuous.