Word Of The Week -- animadversion
Definition: an·i·mad·ver·sion (ān'&-mād-vûr'zh&n, -sh&n)
n.

1. Strong criticism.
2. A critical or censorious remark.

Etymology: [Latin: animadversiō, animadversiōn-, from animadversus, past participle of animadvertere, to turn the mind toward; see animadvert.]

Obscurity: 95% (Come again?)

Usefulness: 5% (Anyone using ( Read more... )

I was reading a Nicholas Kristof column in today's New York Times, wherein he takes the Bush Administration to task for being stone bitches when it comes to environmental policy.

(It's worth noting that Gregg Easterbrook of The New Republic has been waging a private little war on the seemingly obvious idea that the Bush Administration has been bad ( Read more... )

Several people have been getting under my skin lately. Some of 'em I daren't mention in a public forum (even one as vastly ignored as this) but here are a couple I will:

1. My boss. Look, I understand that I'm underemployed and that nothing I'll ever be asked to do here requires my copious skill, talent, and intelligence. But for fuck's sake, ( Read more... )

Gregg Easterbrook's blog on TNR is usually pretty interesting, and even witty at times. But boy can he run a joke into the ground.

I stopped laughing four grafs ago, Greggie. And I stopped reading two grafs ago. (Who am I to talk about long-winded and unfunny, you ask?)

--- Ajax.