Boy

I am an admirer; you are a fan; he is a fanboy.

Thanx to Making Light.

For all you Pynchon & Gaddis fans

Vaucanson's duck

Thanx to Tor.com

Not yet commatose

Oxford has not abandoned the Oxford comma; its PR department has, thus perhaps demonstrating that a PR department is a PR department anywhere.

Thanx to Lisa Gold: Research Maven et al.

Extinct is forever

Allopathic Western male medicine pulls another genocide. Rinderpest joins smallpox as a victim of mammal exceptionalism.

I knew the Rude Pundit; you, sir, are no Rude Pundit

Mark Halperin calls the president a dick.

ETA: I am reminded of the time the Cincinnati Bengals fans threatened to riot, and Bengals coach Sam Wyche took the ref's mic to suggest better behavior because "you live in Cincinnati; you don't live in Cleveland." (It worked.) Perhaps Halperin's employers are telling him, "You work for MSNBC; you don't work for Fox."