Unlike most editors, Greg really allowed me to take the limiter off (both substance- and style-wise) in this essay. Please read and support his cutting-edge lit mag.

I would say that you are missing the word "it" from "that [it] is all but an absolute certainty.".

You think this sort of snippy, holier-than-thou retort makes you sound smart. It doesn't. Anyway, you didn't denigrate the anthem itself. All you did was imply that the guy who wrote it once upon a time was a Very Bad Person (and so therefore. what?). Yawn.

It's a good thing when flawed people manage to leave a beneficial legacy, actually

RT @j_amesmarriott: This must have been what it felt like in late antiquity as the Roman empire fell apart and people gradually lost the ab….

People will say "Europe is cooked" and mean different things by it. But is Europe literally cooked?

I'm sorry, but it is difficult to take seriously any nation where. *checks notes* air conditioning is still a matter of heated public debate.

RT @madmethodpod: The brilliant @brianeha joins me to discuss Flaubert, free indirect discourse, our ongoing ghostification, UNDER THE VOLC….

Get off zero.

So the little plastic tabs that connect the caps to the mouths of water bottles in Europe are ludicrous, right? I'm not the only one who immediately rips the caps free so that I can drink like a human being, am I?.

RT @walterkirn: I just read a short story in The New Yorker by a Pulitzer Prize finalist. It included this sentence, similar to many others….

The thing to remember when prestige media people try to lord it over you is that many of them aren't terribly good writers, aren't very sharp-eyed, aren't even truly intelligent; they're like the substitute teacher who stays one chapter ahead of her class in the assigned textbook.

This is of course in addition to the very real problems of substance and viewpoint bias in the article. .

Really it's the fifth of these five paragraphs here that is the problem; it's like an alternate version of the foregoing facts which was accidentally left in the published article. Paging Abby Van Sickle and her editor.

Godawful sloppy writing/editing from the New York Times on today's SCOTUS ruling. The phrase "so-called nationwide injunctions" appears twice, also the line about them being used to block both Dem and Rep admins/policies, in fact much of this section is wholly repetitive.

I love this Wilco album so much that I put "Jesus, Etc." in a (yet to be published) novel I wrote.

"The world is a masked ball & every one hides his real character, & reveals it by hiding.". —Emerson (Journals, 1854).

Barrett: "No one disputes that the Executive has a duty to follow the law. But the Judiciary does not have unbridled authority to enforce this obligation—in fact, sometimes the law prohibits the Judiciary from doing so.". Too many people (including some on the bench) have acted.

"It must be believed that St George when he conquered the dragon absorbed his nature.". —Emerson (Journals, 1855).

Europeans would rather have sweltering summer air and buzzing flies in their cafes in late June than just shut the doors and turn on AC.