I’ve realized it’s not a good idea to promise myself (and definitely not any readers my delusional mind thinks are out there) that I will post once a day. It just ain’t gonna happen. I’ll keep that defaulted promise in the back of my mind — so maybe it will urge me to write more [...]

Really. Matt Taibbi on Thomas Friedman’s The World is Flat from an old issue of the New York Press. On an ideological level, Friedman’s new book is the worst, most boring kind of middlebrow horseshit. And this: On page 174, Friedman is describing a flight he took on Southwest Airlines from Baltimore to Hartford, Connecticut. [...]

This is a great read.

Interesting article in April‘s Armed Forces Journal. Lt. Col. Edith A Disler, an associate professor of English and deputy head of the Department of English at the Air Force Academy, argues that the Air Force is attempting to reassert its masculinity through language. Essentially, she argues that two prominent, rather recent linguistic changes or