Fellow blogger NHFalcon has begun publishing his in-progress technothriller, The Price of Our Blood, on his blog. Head over and check it out. It’s rare that I sit down and try to do any kind of writing, and at the end of it, I haven’t done something at least serviceable. I enjoy writing tremendously, and … Read more
Barack Obama recently nominated Sonia Sotomayor, who has a vagina and was born to poor Puerto Rican immigrants, to the Supreme Court. The coverage of and conversation about her nomination is full of two thoroughly obnoxious language errors. (One is from her own mouth, so that’s understandable.) Dig: There is no such thing as “reverse … Read more
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