It’s official. On Tuesday, September 21, 2010, the word ‘awesome’ officially retired from colloquial English. Although we are (not really) sad to see her go, everyone here at tomcottar(dot)org would like to thank her for her 20 years of faithful service to our culture. It seems that everything has a shelf life, and the [...]
If you’ve seen this, you know I’m a closet word freak. (Of course, by making that public, I’m pretty sure it’s no longer in the closet…). Nevertheless, there are certain words that need to be banned from usage. Blacklisted. Deleted. Put down like an old mare with a broken leg. Why? Because (1) everything has [...]
As you know, we were already supposed to change over our collective clocks this past Sunday, but Big Brother decided that we needed an extra couple of weeks of Daylight Savings Time. But it goes further. TreeHugger Labs ran the numbers and has determined that If DST runs half the year for an hour a [...]