Another thing which year-in-review pieces remind me about: Despair over the failure of news media does not belong under the same heading as idiosyncratic, essentially groundless usage peeves. “It’s terrible how ‘news’ is just giving blowhards unearned publicity instead of informing the citizenry! And how people use ‘impact’ as a verb.”
“Every Sperm is Sacred” is the new “Auld Lang Syne”
Where were all the lesbians in Queer As Pop?
Rich person to astrophysicist: “you should be more like Malcolm Gladwell”
Understanding metropolitan patterns of daily encounters
Medieval Cone Shaped Princess Hats Were Inspired by Mongol Warrior Women
Pound the table, and demand “civility”
“Know Your Role And Shut Your Mouth”: How Conservative Media Treated Women In 2013
“Pope Francis Excommunicates Priest Who Backed Women’s Ordination and Gays.” Wotta step up!
Books of Human Flesh: The History behind Anthropodermic Bibliopegy