Whoa! A television-news weather reporter just said "average" instead of "normal" when she meant "average" with regard to historical temperature data, and the on-screen graphic used the word "average" as well! When did that change happen?

And is there any chance that other stations will follow suit?

I'm going to take a break from a) the various things I ought to be doing and b) the more difficult political entry I'm in the middle of working on (which I want to phrase very carefully, and which I've started and abandoned three times in the past couple months), to toss out something easy to write: a complaint about my local Post Office.

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I've returned the rental car. The guy at Enterprise asked me ( Read more... )

I don't understand today's cars. Oh, I understand as much of how they work as I ever did, and I can drive some of them[1], but the marketing, nomenclature, and design decisions confuse me.

I got into a rental car. An economy car, I think, since my ( Read more... )

I've lost count of the number of times various people have told me ( Read more... )

I just caught a Christmas-themed commercial on television, with ( Read more... )