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How English got this weird

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Pooping on your screen

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Out of time

I fear that if I ever hear a song by Nickelback, I will like it. I have a lamentable inability to recognize the awfulness of things we are supposed to despise, such as Comic Sans. And now I am reminded of another form of excessive tolerance I suffer from with the death of Sam Panopulos, inventor of pineapple pizza. I like pineapple pizza and refuse to accept the condescension of its enemies, especially those who put cruciferous and other boring vegetables on theirs. (I perform praeteritio upon Japanese pizza with mayonnaise. Never judge a nation by its food.)

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Happy Loving Day!

50 years ago today the Supreme Court decided the appropriately named case of Loving v. Virginia, banishing the primitive tribal taboo that forbade marriage between people who could plausibly be put into different boxes under the fraudulent category of “Race.” A few years ago the late Mildred Loving said that she hoped she would be a precedent for same-sex marriage, and she has been. Oh, and we won gender; number is next.