The mission of the OED from the beginning has been to describe the English language in its entirety, as it is actually used, and how it has been used back to its origins. And that's good - even if it serves to remind us of some of our not-so-shiny traits. Simon Winchester's The Meaning of Everything is nice little…

"Sara Palin is..." I got idiot, crazy, moron, joke, and hot. So 4/5 Google searchers are based in reality on that at least.

You are very welcome. :)

Dear pizza debaters - get a life. That is all.

The only thing that can stop a bad man with a gun is a hospitalized child with a gun.

That would not surprise me.

Polo shirt, baseball cap (backwards), tan shorts, boat shoes. Uniform of Vanderbilt fraternity men since at least the early 90s. Drove through the campus a few days ago and saw a couple guys walking by and I was amazed that they were wearing precisely the same thing I'd seen their forbears (forbrothers?) wearing 20…

Free fertilizer for your square in the neighborhood garden! Heck - you are bound to have enough to share, wining you lots of brownie points. (So to speak.)

Funny how on the one part of that which is actually in his power to control, he still fails. Not a winner.

Less and less so. When I was a kid in the 70s in the South, I rarely saw them. But today, it's increasingly common. I first noticed the shift when I lived in a military town in the 90s. They Army isn't exactly the most liberal game in town, but they've been ahead of the curve on race more than once. It may be an…

Perhaps Mel Brooks' finest moment.

about its fading electability.

I'm afraid I have to report that the war on Christmas has not gone well. Despite all your work, all your sacrifices (and let us never forget what happened to poor Louisa last Thanksgiving) the Christmas Empire seems only to expand. Reports of Christmas sales and Christmas music come earlier every year, and there are…

If you don't want to be taken as an authoritarian apologist for the worst actions of the police, dropping the all caps would be a good start. And frankly, I don't care if she's a twelve-time loser. It is not relevant to whether the cops had probable cause.

Yeah, see, you don't get to arrest people just because they've been in trouble before. You still have to have evidence, probable cause, etc. Really, despite what they get away with, the police do not in fact have legal authority to do just whatever the heck they want to.

Assuming the accusations are true, the important part of this trial will be the sentencing. While it shouldn't matter, it probably will. Who knows? Maybe the judge lost money to Bernie Madoff and will jump at the change to skewer a finance guy.

My IT department is too overworked to bother, thankfully.

Some variant of the Peter Principle, perhaps. Plus, authoritarian personalities seek out positions with authority. It's not an accident that a disproportionate amount of cops, officers, judges, bosses, etc. are authoritarian types, as they are drawn to those jobs.

Hey! Those chips aren't going to eat themselves! If we all pull together, we can do it!

His "speech" is making my cat nuts, lol.