Category Archives: IMENHO (Evidently not humble)

A hard night –

Posted on November 4, 2008 by K

I will not say that I would’ve awakened tomorrow, feeling that the world had been saved.  There is too much going on now in this country that cannot be solved by rhetoric and bailouts.  But I would not have had … Continue reading →

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Twilight and other purloined morpheme packets –

Posted on August 20, 2008 by K

I don’t like it when a word—especially one I have a special fondness for like, say, “lunch”—is hijacked by one particular group or circumstance, and fenced off so that I can’t use them they way I’ve always used them, the … Continue reading →

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Famous Adopted Words

Posted on August 12, 2007 by K

You know that oft-quoted ditty “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing”? Often attributed to Edmund Burke. Turns out, he never said it. Martin Porter, a person I do not know, … Continue reading →

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