OK, I’ve learned to live with the fact that nobody understands why “try to” is more correct than “try and”, or why “hopefully” is a cheat for when you want to say “I hope”. I’ve made my peace, as ’twere. But, that doesn’t stop the hundreds of minor errors that I see every day from driving me nuts. Not the… Read more →
Day: February 5, 2007
The New Ultimate Snack Food
Attention world: as of this moment, the new ultimate snack food is the “Gingered Almond” from Summer Kitchen. Yes, even though they actually call their nut product line “Nutties“, I am still hearilty endorsing this product. Be warned: these things are addictive. There’s a reason the bag shown above is empty (and it’s not just because I couldn’t find any… Read more →
The Fate Of Satire
While reading Anthony Daniels’ piece on Homage To Catalonia (and the people who uncritically love Orwell) at The New Criterion, I was struck be the power of this paragraph: Now, however, that Marxist Communism as a ruling doctrine has all but disappeared from the face of the earth (though its effects certainly live on), Orwell’s most celebrated books have lost… Read more →
