...Now you don't!
I was going to do a post last week talking about what a bad name this is for a band, but does it matter now? I'm sure that they sound splendid, as they're two-thirds of the Dixie Chicks, but the name is still - in the style of Charles Barkley - turrubul. It's funny that there are still places in this great land where the Chicks are not welcome. And all that ire was directed at them for saying back in 2003 that they were ashamed that George W. Bush was from Texas during a gig in London. Honestly, it wasn't the most burning dis of all time, but it was conflated as such by mega-corporate radio, wingnut operatives and the like. Jeez, given the reaction, they should have gone a lot farther than that - maybe making a few prophetic statements about America someday regaining its senses or George Bush being the idiot everyone supposed he was and whatnot. But they bore the brunt of the overreaction and took it quite personally. I guess there was no other way to take it. Anyhow, here it is seven years later and most of us look at that time as a shaky structure of fear atop hatred atop stupidity atop insanity. And under it all is of course a parking garage. It's not important at this moment. The concert's off. Oh, and incidentally, they spelled "canceled" wrong. Is our children learning? No, apparently they isn't.
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That's an acceptable form of cancel(l)ed, I'm quite sure. Just not the typical one in the U.S. It's the tomayto, tomahto of the spoken word!
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/cancelled
Likewise, "court yard" is an acceptable form of "courtyard," but two half-unacceptables equals one unacceptable. So, clearly our children doesn't know no better and should be learned more proper appearances-wise.
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