Liberty's Torch

(a.k.a. Bastion Of Liberty)

"Keep clear of the dupes that talk democracy,
And the dogs that bark revolution.
Drunk with talk, liars and believers.
I believe in my tusks.
Long live freedom and damn the ideologies!"
(Robinson Jeffers)

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Wednesday, April 1, 2020

Some Spelling Help

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In my rounds as the English language’s foremost defender on the Web, I’ve noticed that an old and very useful rule about spelling has b...

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Friday, January 31, 2020

Quickies: GAAAHHHHH!

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Damn it all, only one day after a disquisition on why “the rules” aren’t necessarily binding, I find myself compelled to do this. ...

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Tuesday, July 9, 2019

Quickies: Yet Another Plea For Good Punctuation

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I have no intention of embarrassing the blogger who wrote the following: If you want to solve the pension crisis, the state, loca...

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Tuesday, January 1, 2019

Quickies: Happy New Year! 2019 Is Off To An Agrammatical Start

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It might be unwise, but the second thing I do after getting up is to review my list of material sources. (The first is, of course, to g...

Tuesday, October 30, 2018

A Quick Lexical Bitch

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Today promises to be a frazzler, and anyway, all I have at the moment is this: When we speak of whether a thing is legal, we are disc...

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