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According to Wiktionary, “philistine” is an adjective meaning “lacking in appreciation for art or culture.” I think that falls far short of the definition. I forget where I heard it, but the most able assessment of a philistine I’ve ever heard is someone who knows the difference between
I’m not sure we’ve settled on a name for Artificial Intelligence stuff, probably because it really isn’t very intelligent. It’s mostly a massive version of autofill, which is useful enough, I suppose. If you don’t want to (I don’t), you never have to look at Gargle again. Some
There is a continual assault on the English language. The intertunnel, and especially typing with your thumbs into a Portable Pandora’s Portmanteau, has led to the destruction of many words, including “led,” which is now misspelled lead uniformly. It’s right up there with vise/vice, loose/lose, and spelling et
Joe and Nic’s Road Trip YewToob channel is a rara avis. They do the most useful thing you can find on the intertunnel. They go places, point the camera at what they’re looking at, tell you what they’re looking at, and report as much information as they can
The police as an institution are so thoroughly ingrained in the public’s mind that it’s easy to overlook the fact that a professional police force is a fairly recent development. Before professional policing, there were many ad-hoc assemblies of people with varying amounts of authority, organized and paid
Farewell happy fields, Where joy forever dwells: hail, horrors! -John Milton, writing on a Monday, I’ll wager So we’re leaving Mérida . We were over two hours early for our flight. We got evicted from our rental house early in the day, and security screening at the aeropuerto
I did something well out of the ordinary yesterday. Or was it Thursday? I don’t know. Or is today Thursday? I don’t know what day
I had a fascinating and edifying conversation with my teenage son recently. He’s homeschooled. None of his friends are. He had been tentatively hired to
Whoo boy, that’s Maine. I live in Maine, if you call that living, and I’m here to testify that Maine is just like you see
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