I updated the About page of this blog to better reflect where this thing is hopefully heading. I’m going to lay off politics (and The Splasher) for now and concentrate on my first love: language. What this means in real terms? Hopefully, more interesting (and more frequent) posts, assuming you like words, writing, books, journalism, [...]

Partly due to a fantastic article in Harper’s I read over the weekend, and partly because I’ve been meaning to do so for a while, this blog is now licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license. What does this mean? Not terribly much, unless you feel like posting this work elsewhere. This license gives you [...]