<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>Rants @ theclapp.blog-city.com</title><link>http://theclapp.blog-city.com/</link><description>(Rants) </description><copyright>Copyright 2009 theclapp.blog-city.com</copyright><generator></generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:46:00 GMT</lastBuildDate><image><title>Rants @ theclapp.blog-city.com</title><url>http://server1.blog-city.com/images/bc_v5_logo_small.gif</url><link>http://theclapp.blog-city.com/</link></image><ttl>360</ttl><docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss</docs><item><title>&quot;Month before Christmas rebuttal&quot; deleted</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://theclapp.blog-city.com/month_before_christmas_rebuttal_deleted.htm</guid><link>http://theclapp.blog-city.com/month_before_christmas_rebuttal_deleted.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2007 13:06:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://theclapp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=month%5Fbefore%5Fchristmas%5Frebuttal%5Fdeleted</comments><dc:creator>Larry Clapp</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[So, looking back and re-reading my "rebuttal" to the "Twas the month before Christmas" poem, it seemed kind of childish, so I deleted it.]]></description><category>christmas</category></item><item><title>Imagine that</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://theclapp.blog-city.com/imagine_that.htm</guid><link>http://theclapp.blog-city.com/imagine_that.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2007 12:10:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://theclapp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=imagine%5Fthat</comments><dc:creator>Larry Clapp</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A short rant devoid of actual content on the trustworthiness of American politicians.]]></description><category>politicians</category></item><item><title>The American media: interesting priorities</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://theclapp.blog-city.com/the_american_media_interesting_priorities.htm</guid><link>http://theclapp.blog-city.com/the_american_media_interesting_priorities.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2007 21:50:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://theclapp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Famerican%5Fmedia%5Finteresting%5Fpriorities</comments><dc:creator>Larry Clapp</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Fox & CBS won't run a condom ad because it *gasp* uses sexual implications.]]></description><category>fox</category><category>cbs</category><category>condoms</category><category>sexual intelligence</category></item><item><title>Like evolution and climate change, &quot;grade inflation&quot; is not &quot;just a theory&quot;</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://theclapp.blog-city.com/grade_inflation_not_just_a_theory.htm</guid><link>http://theclapp.blog-city.com/grade_inflation_not_just_a_theory.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2007 13:12:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://theclapp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=grade%5Finflation%5Fnot%5Fjust%5Fa%5Ftheory</comments><dc:creator>Larry Clapp</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[My nephew's graduation, and a brief rant on "just a theory"]]></description><category>graduation</category><category>grade inflation</category><category>just a theory</category><category>analog magazine</category></item><item><title>Work and non-work</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://theclapp.blog-city.com/work_and_nonwork.htm</guid><link>http://theclapp.blog-city.com/work_and_nonwork.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:11:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://theclapp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=work%5Fand%5Fnonwork</comments><dc:creator>Larry Clapp</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Regina Lynn @ Wired.com:

If you are following a person's digital trail and you learn that they spend Saturdays submitting to a dominatrix and Sundays blogging about the relationship and posting photos of the interplay, what assumptions can you dra]]></description><category>sex</category><category>work</category><category>rant</category></item><item><title>Mayday for Marriage?  Where&apos;s the fire?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://theclapp.blog-city.com/mayday_for_marriage__wheres_the_fire.htm</guid><link>http://theclapp.blog-city.com/mayday_for_marriage__wheres_the_fire.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2004 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://theclapp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=mayday%5Ffor%5Fmarriage%5F%5Fwheres%5Fthe%5Ffire</comments><dc:creator>Larry Clapp</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[An excerpt from an email I sent my friend Tom:

I'm curious about the "Mayday for Marriage", if you happen to know anything about it.  I guess I can understand their reasoning (to summarize, "God created marriage, and everything else follows from t]]></description></item><item><title>&quot;Yet Another Java Developers Journal&quot; Grammar/punctuation rant</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://theclapp.blog-city.com/yet_another_java_developers_journal_grammarpunctuation_rant.htm</guid><link>http://theclapp.blog-city.com/yet_another_java_developers_journal_grammarpunctuation_rant.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2004 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://theclapp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=yet%5Fanother%5Fjava%5Fdevelopers%5Fjournal%5Fgrammarpunctuation%5Frant</comments><dc:creator>Larry Clapp</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Recently, Alan posted Yet Another Java Developers Journal, bemoaning the lack of print magazines for the Java programmer community.  I have some minor gripes with his content, but I also have to wonder if he proof-read his magazine as badly as his ow]]></description></item><item><title>Grammar rant</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://theclapp.blog-city.com/grammar_rant.htm</guid><link>http://theclapp.blog-city.com/grammar_rant.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jan 2003 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://theclapp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=grammar%5Frant</comments><dc:creator>Larry Clapp</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Why can't people get it?  Use "it's" to mean "it is", and "its" to mean "possessive it".  Compare "it's cold" vs. "its hard drive crashed."  For plurals, add an "s", or drop a "y" and add "ies", etc.  DON'T add an "'s". *sigh*

Bad plurals:
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