Semantics
Choose Your Words WiselyIs attention to the correct use of words mere pedantry or, as Confucius thought, the neces... |
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To Err Is Human, to Detect DivineThe pedant seeks error, not truth, and delights to find it. Indeed, the search for error m... |
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Taking Out the RubbishFoolishness springs eternal. And this is just as well for us journalists, because it gives... |
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At a Loss for WordsIt's official"words no longer have meaning. As a proud member of society's educated, ... |
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Your Dad Is Not HitlerA few weeks ago I noticed the following slogan painted on the walls of a supermarket in Fr... |
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The Money of FoolsPeople often claim to have cultivated their inner child as if this were a good thing to ha... |
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Who Gets to Name the Snow?Here's the fastest, surest way to identify the subspecies hackus punditus"watch for th... |
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In Defense of NeanderthalsThe most stubbornly hypocritical glitch in the egalitarian mindset is that eugenics is rou... |
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Unsexing the LanguageYesterday I stopped by a Methodist church that was having a charity Christmas-tree sale. A... |
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Relief for the PhobiaphobicFor right-wingers, November proved to be the cruelest month in quite some time. The Keny... |
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The Gayest Study EverA recent study from the University of Michigan finds that the ever-popular youth expressio... |
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The “F” WordAlthough the adjective "fascist," as George Orwell pointed out during and right af... |
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Ron Paul Drops the H-BombMy dream of a Bachmann-Paul Republican ticket in 2012 is fading fast. Vain are the hopes o... |
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“Like” or DislikeI was on a double-decker bus in Glasgow, Scotland, last week and heard two teenagers talki... |
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