Double Reading

I saw this posted to Slate the other day:

Attention! Deficit Disorder

I didn’t read the article about overspending the the U.S. economy (yet), but the headline sure caught my attention.

I keep hearing people on the news use the word “fatalistic” to refer to someone who is being really negative/pessimistic about a situation.
For example, “Is the mayor of New Orleans being as fatalistic about the situation as the Army Corps of Engineers?” The person asking the question was trying to find out if the mayor [...]

I’ve been trying to use the phrase “you all” or even “y’all” for quite a few years now, mostly because “you guys” is, while not sexist, gender insensitive? I don’t know. I just felt stupid saying, “What do you you guys think?” when none of the people I was talking to were guys.
That’s why I [...]

At work we have quite a lot of random list-serv type “groups” that we can join. My coworker, who is a vegetarian like myself, has been a part of the vegetarians group for quite a while. On a whim, my another coworker and I joined the group yesterday as well.
Let me say, it isn’t at [...]