I don’t have much patience for some of the more radical assaults on language in the name of political correctness. I went to college with a chick (heh) who used “womyn,” and wanted to rid the language of words like “seminar” because of its heinously male etymology. She had a gender-neutral pronoun for he/she that … Read more
I’m not sure how many times I’ve blogged about quitting smoking and/or losing weight, but I know it’s tedious, and I don’t intend to get into it again. I don’t have much stomach anymore for my own flagellations on the topic, so I figure y’all are pretty far down that road yourselves. I am, however, … Read more
Well, you may have heard by now that Speakeress of the House Nancy Pelosi has called the CIA a bunch of liars concerning what she knew about waterboarding when. Here is an excellent column on the facts of the whole thing, as well as some good political analysis. In other happenings, Pelosi’s incompetent bitch assistant … Read more