Categories and Tags
Please, can some Wordpress guru explain to me what the difference is between Wordpress categories and tags? It’s driving me CRAZY! What’s a category, what’s a tag, what distinguishes them and why won’t Flock differentiate between categories and tags when I post?
Strong Language and the Power of Words
I ran across this post from the links on the BlogHer ad to the left. Her question: Should an author use strong language in the title of his/her post or their writing?
As a general rule, I don’t. I will occasionally on the political blog but try not to. Once in awhile though, my temper gets hold of me over there. I have over here once or twice, and regretted it both times, mostly because I really prefer to find a voice that speaks forcefully without the use of language. Anyone can toss off the f word and get attention. I try to challenge myself to write in a way that gets the point across without the language. I don’t always succeed, but I do try.
What do you think?
NaBloPoMo in Nov
Yes, I’ve joined NaBloPoMo as a challenge to make myself write daily and hopefully write stuff you want to read. All joining that means is that I’ll write one post a day for the month of November. There has been such a high signal-to-noise ratio around here lately that it’s nearly impossible to WANT to sit and write. There’s nowhere in this house that I can be without someone else there, there’s nowhere that someone isn’t peeking over my shoulder or ordering a Google search from me, and it’s driving. me. crazy. So I am going to stick my iPod headphones in my ears and quit bailing out on the blog. One promise: I will do my very very best not to write just to throw words on here. I generally post every day, but on days where I’m tired or just sick of the impossible environment I have been tossing up a photo. What I’m aiming for is some quality writing that I’m currently bailing on. If I end up writing junk I won’t post it and subject you to it.
I Owe Meme Paybacks
And I know it. Gideon and Vanessa have both linked me in a top 5/10 list and I haven’t reciprocated. But I will, I promise. Sorry about that, friends…those responses have been victims of that pesky signal-to-noise thing. This house is not made for 4 adults, one preteen and one pug. Truly.
Genarlow Wilson
Speaking of Gideon and Vanessa, both blogged about Genarlow Wilson’s release last week. Read both posts, because they offer more insight into the reasoning behind the decision that freed him. I’m glad they arrived at the decision they did, but wish they’d really come head-on to the issue of whether it was proper to try him as an adult in this situation, and whether the sentencing guidelines properly address the question of whether consensual (oral) sex between a 15 year old and a 17 year old should have resulted in an outcome like this. Gideon says:
[The Court] cites statutes from sister states that don’t punish the same conduct to this extent, but as far as I could see, there was no discussion of when those statutes were enacted or how long they were in effect. It then discusses Georgia statutes for seemingly far worse crimes but with far less punishment, but I don’t think it’s very instructive to compare manslaughter to consensual oral sex.
Vanessa says:
Chief Justice Leah Ward Sears wrote the majority opinion in the scant 4-3 vote that allowed this young man to go free. I’d take that also if I were Genarlow and his attorney B.J. Bernstein but it’s also a signal that much more needs to be done in our justice system.
I agree. What bothers me the most about this decision is the same thing that bothers me about Julie Amero’s current limbo. The immediate goal has been met but the long-term outcome and result for others is still up in the air. So they got the result right but haven’t really taken a deep look at the underlying law, and it doesn’t appear as though Georgia’s legislature is in any hurry to do that either.
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Tags: words, writing, meme, nablopomo, genarlow wilson, law
