When the Democrats formally chose Hillary Clinton as their candidate for the presidency last month, she made history twice. Once as the first woman to be so nominated in the history of the country, and again as the first spouse of a former President to be given the honor. Due in no small part to the momentous nature of the…
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Spaghetti is good. I am eating spaghetti as I write this, and in fact the spaghetti I’m eating is what inspired me to formally declare its goodness to the world via weblog. Some more information about the spaghetti I am eating: It is whole wheat spaghetti. It is covered in a red sauce, a combination of Aldi-brand jarred stuff along…
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Warning: This post contains some mildly explicit language. It’s something many of us have probably seen: Some person or another makes a post on social media, or even makes a statement in real life, pertaining to language, grammar, linguistics, or the like. Maybe it’s not even related to language per se, but just displays an artful turn of phrase. Another…
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