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Arturo Rodriguez of the United Farm Workers of America visits The Colbert Report to give anyone who wants a job a chance to work in the lettuce fields. So far, three people have signed up. Well, four, once you count Colbert.

This article appears in Jul 8-14, 2010.

Getting hassled by The Man Mild-mannered reporter

9 replies on “Take Our Jobs: Here’s Your Chance”

  1. “So far, three people has (sic) signed up.” (Posted by Jim Nintzel on Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 8:30 AM)

    It’s getting so bad one is left to wonder:

    1) It’s deliberate

    2) There’s a head of lettuce out there with Jim Nintzel’s name on it

    Take your pick…

  2. Door No. 3, Red Star: I’m just not at my best before 9 a.m. It’s fixed. Thanks, as always, for your sharp-eyed attention to my every word. You pay even more attention than my mom does!

  3. “You pay even more attention than my mom (sic) does!” (Posted by Nintz on July 9, 2010 at 10:42 AM)

    “mom” should be revised to “Mom” since you are referring to a specific person, we reasonably assume.

    Perhaps there’s a Door No. 4…

  4. I don’t think you’re right on that one, smarty-pants Red Star.

    See:

    10. Similarly, “Mom” and “Dad” should be capitalized when using them as proper names or addressing them directly by these names. Otherwise, use lowercase as in “My mom and dad went on vacation. Here is the present I bought for Mother“.

    http://writinghood.com/style/grammar/to-ca&hellip;

    Or:

    The word ‘mother’s,’ in your sentence, should not be capitalized. The only time you capitalize ‘mother’ (other than at the beginning of a sentence) is when it replaces the woman’s name.

    For example, “When is Mother coming home?”

    Or, “When is your mother coming home?”

    “Mom” and “Dad” are used in the same fashion.

    http://en.allexperts.com/q/General-Writing&hellip;

    Anyone want to weigh in on this very important dispute? JB?

  5. Thing is, Jim Nintzel, it’s the “insertion test” that counts in these matters: if “mom” can be replaced with a proper name (Martha Nintzel, Yvette Nintzel, Sally Nintzel, whatever: it doesn’t matter what her name is) without disrupting the sentence and thought, then “Mom” is correct, not “mom” as you would have it.

  6. By that standard, I’d say I got it right. Would I have said “my Margaret” or just “Margaret” in referring to my mom in the sentence under review? The key is the use of “my,” I’d wager. If I had said “You pay more attention to what I wrote than Mom does,” then uppercase makes sense. But with “my mom,” I think I got it right by using lowercase and I pass the “insertion test.” (Cue Michael Scott: “That’s what she said!”)

  7. Nice try, Jim Nintzel, with the convenient “my” argument. You would be on safe ground if you had written “my Mom.” But you didn’t. Obviously there are profound issues for modern Senior Writers: we’re not talking about “my knee.”

  9. Jim Nintzel, as Tucson Weekly Top Commenter, Red Star doesn’t think for a moment that it is easy being Tucson Weekly Senior Writer. Your squirming (above) illustrates that. We all have issues, no dispute there, but perhaps the real key, the key that matters to the reader, is to “get it right” the first time…

    We know you can do it and are very proud of you!

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