Via Sadly, No... I don't know what teachers teach in writing classes these days; I think the first thing a student should learn is "concision is key." Don't say in twenty words what you can say in ten. Certainly, there are times when concision is...
Author: vacuumslayer
I've always had a love/hate relationship with the phrase "guilty pleasure." On the one hand, I'm fairly uncomfortable with people actually feeling guilty about liking things that give them pleasure..
LGM: Platinum Edition Well, it's official: I'm official. I'm now a rich and famous artist and can bid all you chumps adieu. But it's not all cocaine and hookers for.
Via alicublog... I think John Fund might be trollin' when he says "The thesis of both his book and op-ed are simple. All too often the difference between left and right in what should be “polite circles” is quite sharply drawn. Conservatives think liberals have...
This might be the most amazing article I've ever read: examiner.com/article/was-pr… — Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) May 28, 2013 I'm not sure "amazing" is the right word. "Bizarre" is what springs.
Someone from the LGM commentariat sent me this. And now you have to look at it. Happy Memorial Day.
We like to call ourselves "snobs." We like to do this because it implies that we have discerning tastes--in music, in movies, in whatever one snobs out to. Snobbery at its worst is pompous, idiotic hyperbole. At its best, it's instructive. I wish everyone would...
Via BJ. Sometimes I feel like the entire world is punking me.
A little addendum to my earlier post... First off, just wanted to thank everyone for their comments. Even the ones that made me want to have crazy, uninhibited screwdriver-eyesocket sex.
As I've noted before, I'm not really involved in the Realms of Geek, realms like gaming, role-playing and comic booking. These are realms I watch from a distance because I'm interested in how women function in them. One thing that particularly fascinates me is geek...
Since I'm the biggest no-life-having-jagoff of the authors here, I was wondering if you all wanted share your Google Sepuku stories with everyone on the internet. Well, sort of. I'm.
The inter-movement fights of the skeptic world, like geek gate-keeping in the geek world, is something I keep tabs on from afar. Though I am an atheist, a skeptic and--I.