And you know what? The people who hate me can’t understand my hed. I used $10 words on purpose.

But I’m the bad guy.

ETA: To be clear, there wasn’t any ill will. There are just some people who’ve not spent years in a newsroom. Honestly, these are some of my favourite interactions … that moment where they actually grok a logical fallacy is what I suppose is for others like birthing a child.

I swear the Taster’s Choice couple was less of a “will they or won’t they” situation.

Much obliged.

I mean, I’ll applaud any push toward Linux.

I’m reminded of a time I was in a bar in Georgia at a conference. It was in the hotel, and a high-ranking editor for the then-reputable Washington Post bought me a beer. He let me take a sip before launching into how much “immature shit [I] need to get out of [my] system” before being ready to be “Post material.”

Where is any industry going to be in a decade, when no one’s been mentored?

This is four sentences that leads to a 404 source link.

I strongly doubt the writer is the problem here.

We can safely say that lied-about ideation is pretty common. When you have responsibilities and family and such, you can go into your dark place, pretending it’s all OK until it isn’t.

Separate Rolling Stone coverage here.

Chech your work:

It is rare to see something like this. We have their, there and they’re, but there isn’t a fourth option.

• Check
• Czech
• Cheque

Well, you don’t want to use birdshot with eugenics.

I never got a degree! I got roped into the college paper, and from there, well, I didn’t really care about my studies. Why worry about semantics and semiotics when you can tell 18,000 people what to think?

(yeah, I meandered into news after cutting my teeth in opinion)

It’s difficult to understand what “better” would look like. My ex may need to take custody. I don’t trust her with a lot of things, but she does OK at raising kids.

She still wears my wedding collar. I’m not sure what’s unclear.

Sure. That’s a specific use case and not likely a useful one.

When we start getting into utterances, though, we’re firmly in linguistics. Unless you’ve been passing bad checks.

As a former linguistics major, I find this to be horseshit.

Really, we optimize for the least possible amount of communication necessary. With a spouse, you don’t ask full questions. Early on, you might have to shoot a look, but later on? This is now ingrained. They’re offering the solution before you express the problem.

I mostly remember him as the gruff editor in 1994’s The Paper, with a bagel up his ass.

I came to learn recently that the actors and production team sat in at The Boston Globe to get the vibe right. And holy hell, did they nail it.

Actually, yes. They didn’t want me but almost universally wanted to help me.

There is no reason for you to care. I am informing users familiar with my writing and methods that this is now on my radar, but I can’t yet do it justice. I’m being honest about not being ready to perform analysis.

Those fucking Chinese, amirite? All they do is evil. While blockading Cuba is for humanity!