Word for the day (from my mom): aplomb.

Quotation of the day (from Mark Twain. The more I read of him, the more I love him): “…the weakest of all weak things is a virtue which has not been tested in the fire.”

And from the “oddball English” department, here are your non-words for the day: effectivity and functionality. In the information technology universe, you will commonly hear both of these words. dictionary.com calls functionality a ‘Waffle for “features” or “function”‘. Webster apparently knows about them, but use them and regular people will start with the puzzled looks.

…and today from the “I love English” department…the word of the day: prig.

I like to let the art speak for itself:

Yet another ringing endorsement for anomalism!

“oh man!! my name is robert runnels, and luke hatfield is a leader at our church in texas now, but man….he gave me a cd of HALF NELSON the other day, and oh man, ive been like listening to the cd like non-stop!! the best song is ‘Ode To Dick Buttons’! man…y’all rock!!” — via e-mail

How about these radio commercials that play a jingle then say “Well, that’s our new radio jingle. I hope you like it…” How asinine is that?

And an unrelated but timely quotation from Mark Twain: “The old saw says, ‘Let a sleeping dog lie.’ Right… Still, when there is much at stake it is better to get a newspaper to do it.”

“Eschew surplusage” – Mark Twain.

WOW! I just heard an ad on the radio for a product called Zim’s Crack Creme! Well, I thought maybe it was a parody at first but no. Lots of laughs anyway.

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“It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people’s minds.” – Samuel Adams, brewer and patriot