Excellent New Yorker journalist George Packer writes an insightful post about his visit to the new Creation Museum in Kentucky:
The simulation serves a primitive ideology known as “young-earth creationism,” which promote the idea that the earth is just over six thousand years old and that the fossil record appeared after the Flood, around 4300 B.C. […]

Okay, so here’s where my writing nerdiness comes out. (Even if you can’t tell from the quality of my writing on this blog.)
Off the Kuff has a post discussing his belief that “they” and “their” should be accepted as valid, gender-neutral forms of singular pronouns. In responding to grammarians’ dislike of such a proposal, Kuff […]

My common-law wife’s mother, Glenda Wolin, won a best column-writing award from the National Society of Newspaper Columnists:
Glenda Wolin, an assistant city editor and online columnist for the San Antonio Express-News, has earned first-place honors from the National Society of Newspaper Columnists for her column, The Ranchwoman.”This is incredible,” said Dan Balcar, Express-News senior […]

Whether or not you can tell, I studied English Writing and Rhetoric in college.
I’ve been reading Michael Ventura’s columns in The Austin Chronicle for years now. Oftentimes, I’ve found them the only items of substance in that weekly (discounting the music listings).
Since the start of the war in Iraq, he’s gone off on more than […]