Squeeze from the Bottom
Remember the metal tubes you crimped from the bottom as you squeezed out the toothpaste?
"The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter." —Mark Twain
Fighting for hearts and minds
Remember the metal tubes you crimped from the bottom as you squeezed out the toothpaste?
Recent posts here have been almost entirely domestic. What can a Tucson-based blogger say about events that’ll make the slightest difference? Still, one tries to keep a hand in. On the Air India crash: the engines on those Boeing 787s produce more than enough thrust to make up for forgetting to set flaps and slats […]
As hot as it is today, you’d think my thoughts would be fully cooked, not half-baked. But there you go.
The AP Stylebook and I go back a long way.
What’s that they say? Never read the comments? One of these days I’ll learn.
Not gonna be a 21st century Good German. Don’t you be one either. Resist.
The pinheads we’ve warned you about, fought against, taken to court, subverted with work-arounds, subjected to public ridicule and shame — the torch & pitchfork book-burning mob — are suddenly the boss of us.
Monday, during the presidential inauguration ceremony in Washington DC, Elon Musk twice made outstretched, flat palm gestures with his right arm, widely interpreted as Nazi salutes.