http://www.bloggingwithclass.com Sat, 12 Nov 2011 20:13:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.bloggingwithclass.com/essay/sandusky-and-sodomy/ http://www.bloggingwithclass.com/essay/sandusky-and-sodomy/#comments Sat, 12 Nov 2011 20:13:19 +0000 Oxhorn http://www.bloggingwithclass.com/?p=1719 http://www.bloggingwithclass.com/essay/sandusky-and-sodomy/feed/ 2 Why Child Rape at Penn State Will Happen Again Now they’re sorry. Now, they’ll promise over and over that this will never happen again. It only took world-wide media coverage. I believe these allegations of child rape never came to light until now because of a sickness that all universities share; they feel they are [...] http://www.bloggingwithclass.com/how-to-be-classy/yard-sculptures/ http://www.bloggingwithclass.com/how-to-be-classy/yard-sculptures/#comments Sat, 15 Oct 2011 03:54:55 +0000 Oxhorn http://www.bloggingwithclass.com/?p=1580 http://www.bloggingwithclass.com/how-to-be-classy/yard-sculptures/feed/ 1 Classy people don’t put fake marble sculptures in their yard or garden. The Greeks, as we all know, were the first to define class. When the Romans took over, they sent their boys to Athens to learn how to be classy from the Greeks. Ever since the Greeks, humans have tried to demonstrate their class [...] http://www.bloggingwithclass.com/essay/general/ipad-test/ http://www.bloggingwithclass.com/essay/general/ipad-test/#comments Thu, 08 Sep 2011 08:05:12 +0000 Oxhorn http://www.bloggingwithclass.com/essay/general/ipad-test/ http://www.bloggingwithclass.com/essay/general/ipad-test/feed/ 0 This is a test post from my iPad. I just installed the wordpress app and am trying to publish from may iPad. Will it work? Will my reading several be pestered by this rather worthless post? We will see! I do note that it is pretty primitive. Many of my advanced plugins don’t work when [...] http://www.bloggingwithclass.com/how-to-be-classy/sweatpants/ http://www.bloggingwithclass.com/how-to-be-classy/sweatpants/#comments Wed, 31 Aug 2011 05:50:55 +0000 Oxhorn http://www.bloggingwithclass.com/?p=1582 http://www.bloggingwithclass.com/how-to-be-classy/sweatpants/feed/ 0 Classy people don’t wear sweatpants, unless they’re at home, alone. We’ve all seen the corpulent woman strolling around the supermarket wearing what were once pink sweatpants covered in food stains (at least I hope they are food stains) with the words PINK, JUICY or something rather unmentionable etched into the butt. This is unclassy on [...] http://www.bloggingwithclass.com/essay/how-to-deal-with-sociopaths/ http://www.bloggingwithclass.com/essay/how-to-deal-with-sociopaths/#comments Tue, 23 Aug 2011 05:50:35 +0000 Oxhorn http://www.bloggingwithclass.com/?p=1644 http://www.bloggingwithclass.com/essay/how-to-deal-with-sociopaths/feed/ 2 There are two things we must do when confronted with a sociopath; punish him and isolate him from humanity and human memory. Many other responses are inappropriate and can lead to greater tragedy. I’m prompted to write by the recent massacre in Norway. The sociopath responsible made sure to tell us his reasons afterwards, which [...] http://www.bloggingwithclass.com/essay/does-travel-cure-bigotry-why-only-the-rich-think-so/ http://www.bloggingwithclass.com/essay/does-travel-cure-bigotry-why-only-the-rich-think-so/#comments Sun, 21 Aug 2011 07:08:48 +0000 Oxhorn http://www.bloggingwithclass.com/?p=1632 http://www.bloggingwithclass.com/essay/does-travel-cure-bigotry-why-only-the-rich-think-so/feed/ 3 Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. This is a quote from Mark Twain. A wealthy friend from San Francisco tweeted this a few days ago. I think this quote has a little truth, but is more endemic of class arrogance than anything. [...] http://www.bloggingwithclass.com/essay/ligatures/ http://www.bloggingwithclass.com/essay/ligatures/#comments Thu, 18 Aug 2011 04:08:25 +0000 Oxhorn http://www.bloggingwithclass.com/?p=1612 http://www.bloggingwithclass.com/essay/ligatures/feed/ 0 This is a test post to see if ligatures are working. The first waffle is due stiff graffiti and first street taffy for flowers in Florida with an obœ over æons. It definitively works with headers. Sub-headers offer no scuffle. Lists Aint Miffed “Quotes look nice.” So do contractions, don’t you think? Super-hyphening is fine—dashes do too. An ellipse…is [...] http://www.bloggingwithclass.com/how-to-be-classy/6-the-word-like/ http://www.bloggingwithclass.com/how-to-be-classy/6-the-word-like/#comments Mon, 11 Jul 2011 00:14:30 +0000 Oxhorn http://www.bloggingwithclass.com/?p=1603 http://www.bloggingwithclass.com/how-to-be-classy/6-the-word-like/feed/ 1 Classy people don’t say the word ‘like’ more than once every three sentences. Continuous repetition of any word is very annoying, but particularly so when the word is misused, as is chronically done with ‘like’. There are three proper uses of the word ‘like’: Similarity. “Bacon is like sausage in that they both come from [...] http://www.bloggingwithclass.com/how-to-be-classy/5-never-argue-over-the-bill/ http://www.bloggingwithclass.com/how-to-be-classy/5-never-argue-over-the-bill/#comments Wed, 06 Jul 2011 05:16:15 +0000 Oxhorn http://www.bloggingwithclass.com/?p=1486 http://www.bloggingwithclass.com/how-to-be-classy/5-never-argue-over-the-bill/feed/ 0 Classy people never argue over who picks up the tab at a restaurant. We realize that money can be a sensitive issue for some people. Classy people, then, adapt to the circumstance. If someone offers to pay, we let him. If no one has yet offered to pay, we gladly offer to. If, having offered [...] http://www.bloggingwithclass.com/essay/why-gay-marriage-is-unreasonable/ http://www.bloggingwithclass.com/essay/why-gay-marriage-is-unreasonable/#comments Sun, 26 Jun 2011 20:27:31 +0000 Oxhorn http://www.bloggingwithclass.com/?p=1442 http://www.bloggingwithclass.com/essay/why-gay-marriage-is-unreasonable/feed/ 3 The legalization of same-sex marriage in New York is momentous. Since the news hit, we’ve seen non-Christians jubilant while thumbing their nose at Christians, some Christians horrified, and other Christians jubilant and trying to apologize for the lack of tolerance and niceness of their fellow Christians. We’ve also seen people (who usually are not Christians) [...]