Atrocious

I know it's been approximately eleventy-billion years since my last post - and for that I apologize. However, this post is still going to be brief. The reason for this is that I have to write 2 papers and a take-home exam in the next 8 days. All in all, it amounts to about 30 pages. Not only that, but I'm scheduled to work 30 hours next week. So I hope you can understand my brevity- perhaps even have a little pity for me. Hey, I'll throw the party and look pitiful, all you have to do is come with violin in hand.

So, why am I choosing to post now? Two reasons: 1) Procrastination/avoidance technique; 2) I came across a sentence (in the loose sense of the word - it had a period) in a scholarly journal that was shockingly atrocious. Here it is: "For example, part-time workers were awarded the same rights as full-time workers in the United Kingdom in the 1990s by the House of Lords applying EU-based law saying that to do otherwise would be to discriminate against women (because the majority of part-time workers were women), several years before this entitlement was clarified in the Part-Time Workers Directive." The question I pose is this: How did such a monstrosity find its way into an academic journal? Incidentally, the article is from Social Politics, published by the Oxford University Press. If you want the rest of the citation, let me know. I'll even give it to you in MLA format. But for now, I'd better get back to my studies - I do my best work in the middle of the night.