As a former book production editor, I've kerned my share of letters. Oh, the joys of the light box and Exacto knife! Yet in all those years of eyestrain and huffing rubber cement, I never came across the word "thurible." Now I know my ignorance comes from being a non-Catholic, which is how I'm going to self identify from now on. Thank you, Scott.
I would also like to raise the question of whether “riddled” is rarely if ever used in a positive way. For example, a patient may be riddled with cancer, or a shooting victim may be riddled with bullets, but is a person being gifted multiple flower arrangements said to be riddled with flowers ?
I must correct the author. Like I, Max Weber was that highly discredited practitioner, a sociologist. Not an economist. I trust you are now combobulated.
Thank you for the correction. We will run it next week. But I must ask, isn't it "like ME," i.e., object of the preposition "like?" Or was this just a bit of CSO humor?
Debatable, esquire. Could be argued that the thought would be completed as “like I WAS”—in which case I becomes the subject of the completed thought. I don’t feel badly about this!
I find it interesting that The Dispatch and the National Review are both placed in the “Lean Right” category. I used to be a subscriber to the National Review, but cancelled my subscription when EIC Rich Lowery decided to go all in for Trump (after first having NR be somewhat anti-Trump). I am a subscriber to The Dispatch, which is made up mostly of Anti-Trumpers who used to be with the National Review but left there in response to it going MAGA (e.g., Jonah Goldberg, Kevin D. Williamson, Steve Hayes). I do find The Dispatch to be fairly conservative in ideology at times, but that actually causes them to be particularly anti-Trump on the basis that he betrays most conservative principles they hold dear. I find TD’s Kevin D. Williamson and Scott Lincicome (also of the Cato Institute) to be particularly intelligent and interesting.
Thank you for the footnote which I just read before I sent a blistering comment on how one could be in the center with the orange creature in the White House and the bootlickers in the Cabinet and Congress who bow down to him
As a former book production editor, I've kerned my share of letters. Oh, the joys of the light box and Exacto knife! Yet in all those years of eyestrain and huffing rubber cement, I never came across the word "thurible." Now I know my ignorance comes from being a non-Catholic, which is how I'm going to self identify from now on. Thank you, Scott.
I would also like to raise the question of whether “riddled” is rarely if ever used in a positive way. For example, a patient may be riddled with cancer, or a shooting victim may be riddled with bullets, but is a person being gifted multiple flower arrangements said to be riddled with flowers ?
I can’t rank your merch 1-3.
Best I can do is rank them in double digits
The country would be a better place (combobulated) if we followed Brave Angels ideology instead of ranting from our politically aligned silos.
Recombobulated! https://onmilwaukee.com/articles/recombobulationsigns
Excellent. Thank you! Will include in reader mail next week.
I must correct the author. Like I, Max Weber was that highly discredited practitioner, a sociologist. Not an economist. I trust you are now combobulated.
Thank you for the correction. We will run it next week. But I must ask, isn't it "like ME," i.e., object of the preposition "like?" Or was this just a bit of CSO humor?
Debatable, esquire. Could be argued that the thought would be completed as “like I WAS”—in which case I becomes the subject of the completed thought. I don’t feel badly about this!
Fair enough. Good “badly” move, too. I miss the linguistic chess matches.
I received a shoutout in this week's edition; I am honored!
I find it interesting that The Dispatch and the National Review are both placed in the “Lean Right” category. I used to be a subscriber to the National Review, but cancelled my subscription when EIC Rich Lowery decided to go all in for Trump (after first having NR be somewhat anti-Trump). I am a subscriber to The Dispatch, which is made up mostly of Anti-Trumpers who used to be with the National Review but left there in response to it going MAGA (e.g., Jonah Goldberg, Kevin D. Williamson, Steve Hayes). I do find The Dispatch to be fairly conservative in ideology at times, but that actually causes them to be particularly anti-Trump on the basis that he betrays most conservative principles they hold dear. I find TD’s Kevin D. Williamson and Scott Lincicome (also of the Cato Institute) to be particularly intelligent and interesting.
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Thank you for the footnote which I just read before I sent a blistering comment on how one could be in the center with the orange creature in the White House and the bootlickers in the Cabinet and Congress who bow down to him