*Slams dictionary shut til Monday*

It is permissible in English for a preposition to be what you end a sentence with. The idea that it should be avoided came from writers who were trying to align the language with Latin, but there is no reason to suggest ending a sentence with a preposition is wrong.

And suddenly the world is less smart, less insighful, and less funny. RIP Tom Lehrer

OTD 100 years ago

An indispensably valuable technology emerges which also disrupts society and leads to extreme adverse consequences for many. I’m talking, of course, about the movable type printing press and Europe’s religious wars

Langston Hughes

I wouldn’t have any kind of business today if I hadn’t started pitching my services years ago with a free WordPress site, a few clips, and a journalism degree. It feels cringe to put yourself out there but it makes a difference!

Poker Palace closed this morning. The Las Vegas market lost its last 3/2 blackjack game under $5, traditional blackjack game that allowed doubling down on three cards, and its cheapest poker tournament. The market now has 67 casinos with live tables on 63 licenses.

It took 20 years to go from Dan Rather to Bari Weiss.

We’re about to find out what’s more important: Being racist or being hungry.

I miss the way I looked at the world before I knew too much about it.

“The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.” — Sylvia Plath

Not a single woman. I'm begging you to read “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson, “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor, “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Gilman. Women have been masters of short horror, and the short story in general, since its inception.

The Top MAGA Trolls on This App Have Been Revealed to Be Foreign Accounts rollingstone.com/culture/cultur…

One of my favorite things about owning a bookshop by a middle & high school is that I have kids come in every day after school to study, play chess, or just browse & chat. Most of them had never been in a used bookshop before, and I feel in my small way I’m changing their lives.

No. If you are a grown adult, you should know what the word “complimentary” means. We shouldn’t have to dumb down our vocabularies to words of one syllable for the benefit of the illiterate. People get dumber when society stops expecting them to know things.

Turns out there's a proper verb for the Irish goodbye.

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