Friday, July 23, 2010

About That Lawyer ...



... there's good news and bad news.

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Mark Your Dictionaries


"Tank" is now the official, not-at-all-slangy term for "fall." (In a related development, "rise" has become "spike.")

Saturday, July 17, 2010

There's Only One Child Myth


What I'm pretty sure Time is talking about is "the only-child myth." A myth about only children, not the only myth about children.

(If anyone cites "the '-ly' rule" as an excuse for this ridiculous refusal to hyphenate, I'm going to, in the words of a certain Holly Hunter character, lose it.)