As reported by Womzilla, via Supergee on the cranky_editors LiveJournal community: Several groups trying to re-ignite New England's faith are theologically conservative, such as the Southern Baptists [and others]. They...
I've written about gender-neutral pronouns before. Here's an article from a couple months ago about the origin of gender-neutral "he" along with a discussion of singular "they."...
Noticed this line a couple months ago in the lyrics to "People Will Say We're in Love" (from Oklahoma): Your eyes mustn't glow like mine Has anyone done a horror...
There was a good Frank Rich opinion piece in the New York Times a week ago on Sarah Palin. But the reason I'm mentioning it here is not the topic...
Recently came across an interesting item in Wikipedia: List of names for the Biblical nameless, which "compiles names given in Jewish or Christian mythology for characters who are unnamed in...
Some years back, I saw an employment ad for a major computer company in which all the text said "Lorem ipsum." Clearly someone was supposed to fill in actual copy,...
My name is Shmuel, and I'll be your guest blogger. I'd like to thank Jed for inviting me to come and play. I'm flattered, and excited, and terribly uncertain of...
It occurred to me a while back that it might be interesting to have other folks who are interested in words and wordplay join me in blogging here, either temporarily...
Entertaining T-shirt from zazzle.com says: Polyamory is wrong! It is either Multiamory or Polyphilia but mixing Greek and Latin roots? Wrong!...
Cursebird provides "a real-time feed of people swearing on Twitter." It even shows a seven-day overview bar graph of the relative frequency of various common swear words....