Planned Parenthood is on the defensive these days as The Center for Medical Progress, an anti-abortion group, continues to release heavily edited spy cam footage that appears to show Planned Parenthood officials either contemplating or negotiating the sale of fetal tissue for profit. It’s legal for them to recover the cost of expenses, but anything […]
I saw a cartoon today. In it, a military recruiter says to the young man seated across from him, “And you’ll be murdering peasants who could never possibly hurt anyone in the U.S., all in order to further corporate interests.” Quite the opposite of what recruiters actually say, I’m sure. Similarly, centuries before science harnessed […]
While I’m not inclined, as linguist John McWhorter has done*, to describe text messaging as “a miracle happening right under our very noses”, I do welcome new and intuitive forms of communication. Seriously. Bring on the new shades of meaning, too, I say, and the always entertaining mashup words like “freemium” and “celebutante”. Love those. Sometimes, […]
