February 2012
16 posts
January 2012
1 post
“SOPA/PIPA exists for one reason, to protect an aging and crooked business model,...”
– Kinelle, Comment is Free, 18 January 2012.
May 2011
1 post
1 tag
“A psychologist told us after the accident that children do not have a sense of...”
– The New York Times, What Happened to Air France Flight 447?, 4 May 2011.
February 2010
2 posts
why snark works
agrammar:
Because it’s a subliminal argument. Or an aspirational one. Or at least flippancy is. Or, well, wait:
Imagine a spectrum lying across the ways we communicate. One end represents being flippant, funny, referential, snarky, and concise—zingers and one-liners and sarcasm. The other end represents being earnest, thorough, measured, charitable, and serious. The difference between these...
May 2009
1 post
WatchA Matter of Life and Death, wonderful slice of end-of-war Englishness. Part two here.
April 2009
1 post
This goes with that. →