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LaTorre should have included GBS.

The flu is very bad this year, and even worse for the young with strong immune responses, a lot like the one in 1885-86.

I wouldn't be so sure of that anymore. Leaving it in might appeal to many other boards who'd be perfectly happy to rehabilitate and legitimize the word.

We shall miss your wit.

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There are prompts all around us in life — in stores, on buses, planes, and trains, in people panhandling at intersections and the others giving or not giving money to them... Just put yourself into their heads and tell a moment or longer of their life. Whatever you think is funny or ironic or...

Writing fiction is the opposite of programming, and good therapy for that over-structured mindset. Think a little about where you want a story or chapter to go and what you want it to say, then just begin. Good writing is a process of discovering the real story lurking within the premises and...

Never mind

Is it really worse than 50 years ago, though? Hasn't the word always been a cultural shibboleth?

My favorite gendered noun is aviatrix. Imagine "I'm Trixie — I'll be your waitrix tonight. "

In my eyes, the worst thing Tom Clancy ever did in his writing was to make a bunch of Norwegian naval officers sound like Tonto on The Lone Ranger. I mean, how hard would it have been for him to meet a few Norwegians in a bar or something and listen to them for an hour or two? It was lazy AF...

"Such a looser" sounds like Swenglish.

Yes, I assumed it had something to do with the clucking classes.

Just now stumbled onto Classical Gas by Mason Williams being used as an episode opener on a mindless escapist mini-seried called The Last Frontier. It's like a wormhole from this evening to the 1960s.

Also true and just. But I nonetheless sing SG in secret. And tap my toe in public. And renegade — that's the word I was looking for.