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A few good finds from this Canadian blog:

• The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy
  E. D. Hirsch, Jr., Joseph F. Kett, James Trefil
  Third
  Edition, 2002

• The Day of the
  Condour
  or How to be a Propour Canadian Spellour
  Ronald de Sousa
  
  repost

  I scarcely dare fourmulate this question, lest it be censoured,
  and–Horrour of horrours!–deter our Honourary Donours. Yet suffour me to
  exhourt you: four though some may harbour the thought that this minour question
  is not wourth the furour, or think–in errour–that I speak humourously, this
  issue is especially impourtant for our langourous juniours to considour —
  provided, of course, they have not been savouring liquour priour to pouring over
  this text, endeavouring to gauge its tenour.

• The
  Awesome Destructive Power of the Corporate Power Media
  The Black
  Commentator

  If a mildly progressive, Internet-driven, young white middle
  class-centered, movement-like campaign such as Dean’s – flush with money derived
  from unconventional sources, backed by significant sections of labor, reinforced
  by big name endorsements and surging with upward momentum – can be derailed in a
  matter of weeks at the whim of corporate media, then all of us are in deep
  trouble.

  The Dean beat-down should signal an intense reassessment of media’s role in
  the American power structure.