Recognizing Corporate Snake-Talk
The three-and-a-half hour evisceration that was the Joe Rogan Experience #1258 was one of the more extraordinary contemporary media debates I've seen. Tim Pool pulled no punches, but he didn't…
The Benefits of Writing by Hand
In the age of keyboards, blogs, Microsoft Word, and even turning in assignments online, we have fewer and fewer reasons to write things out by hand anymore. Even little notes…
Caveats on Orwell
From almost six years back, Ed Smith has some interesting insight on the subject of deceptive speech and Orwell's Politics and the English Language: Orwell argues that “the great enemy of…
Politics and the English Language
By George Orwell Most people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English language is in a bad way, but it is generally assumed that we…