Strunk and White offer this advice for bloggers: Unless there is a good reason for its being there, do not inject opinion into a piece of writing. We all have opinions about almost everything, and the temptation to toss them in is great. To air one’s views gratuitously, however, is to imply that the demand …
From Fred Stutzman: The student, whose sexual orientation was known to administrators, and agreed to live a closeted life along the lines of a particularly draconian set of rules, was ultimately expelled when he chose to signify his interest in the same sex in the Facebook. (via dcm) (update: 12:30 p.m. MST – Fred seems …
More evidence that the British own this language and we’re just borrowing it for a bit. From New Scientist, the story of a chap “who confused his guests at a dinner party by apologising for an astringent apple-based dessert, saying:” This pie is a trifle tart.
Steve Lawrence Misses the Point.
drought watch: You have to squint to see it, but my favorite Snotel station, at Chamita up near the Colorado border, got 3 inches of snow in the last 24 hours. That’s about a third of an inch of snow water equivalent, which is not a whole lot, but is better than having a lit …
Our old friend Michael Fumento back in the day chastised me for being a lowly blogger while he was widely published in newspapers. No more. Tim Lambert points out that Scripps Howard, which used to carry Fumento’s column, has sacked the conservative pundit for writing about the glories of Monsanto’s biotechnology without disclosing that he …
It being epiphany, the easy-do parties lady has put away her Santa hat until next Christmas.
book: J. Madeleine Nash’s El Niño: Unlocking the Secrets of the Master Weather-Maker. It’s been sitting unread on my shelf since it came out three years ago. It’s good so far, by which I mean she’s a) found a good line to follow through the story, and b) told me things I didn’t already know. …
Various ways to die.
In my own modest search to undestand the zeitgeist of the Inkstain reader, the top gaining search string for December 2005: Jeff “Skunk” Baxter. Big ass remains a perennial favorite (Was that really what they were looking for?), as does “don’t bogart that joint”. Sadly, inflatable turkeys seem to have dropped off the radar after …