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I see this morning that Google and some feminist-y groups want to ban the word "bossy." That strikes me as a very bossy thing to do. (Over 35 years I've had three female bosses; I wouldn't describe any of them as "bossy." It's a perfectly good word which reasonable people understand. There really is, as…
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Megan McArdle: Over the years, I developed a theory about why writers are such procrastinators: We were too good in English class. This sounds crazy, but hear me out. It's sadly applicable to me down to the part where she starts talking about the current educational system: Why Writers Are the Worst Procrastinators However, she…
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If you've tried to leave a comment and gotten the message "not a hash reference," it's not your problem. Something seems to be wrong at TypePad. UPDATE, 10pm Central (USA) time: TypePad says on their Twitter feed (I'm not on Twitter but they publish it on their main page): "We are noticing that there’s an issue…
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I'm beginning to run out of steam on this effort to watch as many as possible of the movies saved on our DVR before it goes back to AT&T. I told my wife the other day that we are at risk of becoming couch potatoes. But here are three from the past three weeks or…
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The library should know better than to let me keep books for a year (because I taught a few courses some years ago and therefore qualify as faculty). It just means that I keep them for over a year. I've now had The Letters of Caryll Houselander since December 21, 2012. Great book, no wonder I…
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Sometimes Google's auto-suggest feature produces interesting, amusing, and even vaguely poetic results. The other day I was looking for the blog What's Wrong With the World, which I read occasionally but haven't bookmarked, and this was Google's attempt to be helpful (click on the image to enlarge it): Assuming these are ranked according to the…
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I have a spam comment that consists entirely of the phrase "God of Carnage." It provides a link to Cheap Prada Bags. Seems odd, but I suppose people who want cheap Prada bags may be pretty aggressive.
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Our time is notable for its number of officially educated people who don't know that they don't know what they don't know.
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I had a dream last night that was a sort of murder mystery in which I was both the murderer and the detective.
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Yesterday I clicked on a news story with that title because I thought it would be amusing and was curious as to what the answer would be, and how it was determined. As it turned out, it was amusing more because of its slight earnest professor-analyzing-a-joke quality than for the light it shed on the…
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