Unemployed journalist, burner, raver, graphic artist and vandweller.
I read news so you don’t have to (but you still should).


I mean, if Sir David Attenborough is narrating the flies fucking, that’s gripping television, as opposed to whatever the fuck that was last night.


Who even needs the list?


We haven’t even gotten to the lesbian electrician who’s still here, having rode her motorcycle down from Temple. She looked at my entire system instead of just the fridge. My life can get a bit weird.


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.


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.
With all due respect, if you need further info to see what he’s into …