I have not yet written the post I would like to put up. Doing that would be foolish. I just don’t believe in posting whining and sourness online. 😯
Instead, I offer you autonomous agile aerial robots: Read it all
You’ve Been Warned
Handwashing in Public Restrooms
“On penalty of being fired, wash your hands!”
Who needs to be told that?
Then I wondered why the sign doesn’t just say “will be immediately dismissed”: Read it all
“They Spoke a Dialect of English”
Does Hank the Cowdog understand King James English? (I think he does.)
But never mind Hank for now. Instead, tune in John Erickson’s appeal for “a language that maintains honesty, simplicity, and clarity.”
Consider your own use of the English language. Read it all
What’s the Opposite of Gay Pride?
I’d been thinking that the opposite of “gay” pride is “straight” humility.
But I just wondered a bit ago if matching up double opposites would have the same effect as a double negative in English.
Thus the opposite of gay pride might be straight pride or gay humility.
Because straight humility might be doubly opposite of gay pride and thus Read it all
Pullicino: “Assisted Death Pathway”
Early this morning I saw this in the UK papers (and Malta’s, I think):
NHS hospitals are using end-of-life care to help elderly patients to die because they are difficult to look after and take up valuable beds, a top doctor has warned.
He talks about removing a “patient from the LCP despite significant resistance.”
Oh, you don’t know about LCP? Read it all
Passive Parenting, Benign Neglect
Benign — “good, kindly, benignant, benevolent, tender, humane, gentle, compassionate.”
Someone tell me how neglecting the child(ren) in my care can be described accurately as benign. 😯
I know, I know — we can refer to it as benign in the sense that it is “not malignant.” But still, how is it not a malignant thing to neglect my children? Read it all
What’s Special About This, Google?
Google Street View near Perrysville, IN — except what you see below is looking up.
I have no idea what that is, though apparently it’s near a farm on N County Rd 200 E.
Some other blogger posted a more-zoomed-out version, though I have no clue why. I studied it and failed to find anything particularly outstanding.
Except for this: Read it all