Daughter Number Three

I won't quote the exact way it was used, but on a social media post today I saw a person spell the word dementia as dimensia . It almos...

Many people have written about misleading headlines that omit context and detail — usually in the realm of political coverage. Here's a ...

I saw this map on Twitter today:  Its reason for being posted ("Still so much work to do when it comes to decarbonizing the US power gr...

I've never liked the word "branding," but I feel as though I have to use it write this post. Today I learned the organization ...

There was a pair of additional posts from Bluesky in November 2023 that appeared next to each other, and that took too much description to i...

Am I the only one who's sick of hearing that states are "enshrining" abortion rights in their constitutions? Why do members o...

I have tried hard to give up my long-time role as a grammar (and usage) curmudgeon. I know that my writing is far from perfect, as readers o...

I remember holding out against calling September 11, 2001 "9/11." Something about it just bugged me, and it seemed as though Septe...

I don't doubt the underlying data about maternity care deserts in this NPR story , based on a March of Dimes report , but I have some ar...

I'm just back from another road trip. While traveling across the country, I had the chance to ruminate once again about the trucking com...

Sometimes you hear a person say "small 'd' democratic" to differentiate from Democratic, as in the Democratic Party. In th...

The Star Tribune continues its bumbling run without a regular political cartoonist. Today's cartoon was this from Rivers, an anonymous ...

I was up in the far northwestern exurbs of the Minneapolis recently and saw this building with these signs. (I didn't get a chance to ta...

Have I posted before about these attempts at creating a square-format map of the U.S.? I think I have, but I'm not sure. I saw this vers...

It's an odd feeling when your existence is not acknowledged as part of reality. I know there are much worse examples than this, but I en...

There it was in one of my morning newspapers, a headline using a verb that has lost its meaning: Have most people ever known the definition ...

I mentioned a misusage back in 2013 in one of my Flips of the Tongue posts , and I've heard or read it a number of times since then. My ...

I think it's probably obvious that I take covid about as seriously as any non-medical person does, or at least anyone who hasn't had...

Long day, and the world is overwhelming. I guess there's some good news on the infrastructure bill (maybe, we'll see if they manage ...

It pretty much goes without saying that our mainstream media will fail 90+% of the time when it comes to recognizing that politics is not a ...