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Area man, 47, with cool car admits defeat, buys minivan

There’s no good way to say this without betraying maintain my cool exterior, so I’ll get on with it: I own a minivan now. This may perplex regular readers of these paragraphs because I do not have any of the accessories that usually go along with a minivan. I have no wife. I have noContinue reading “Area man, 47, with cool car admits defeat, buys minivan”

Bumper stickers: Irritating free speech or secret coded messages to members of lost Gen X tribe

Bumper stickers covered the rear end of the smallish SUV in front of me. The owner of the car, or one of their kids, really wanted me to know some things about them. They wanted me to know that people from all religions could get along with the sticker that read “Coexist” using a varietyContinue reading “Bumper stickers: Irritating free speech or secret coded messages to members of lost Gen X tribe”

Circling back to Lake Superior State University’s ‘banished words’ list, at the end of the day, it makes the new normal tolerable

Lake Superior State University publishes an annual list of “Banished Words.” The Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, school doesn’t really want to ban words. It wants to curb cliché. Clutter is the greatest enemy to clarity in language use. I support any effort to stamp out cliché. Having people saying all the same phrases all theContinue reading “Circling back to Lake Superior State University’s ‘banished words’ list, at the end of the day, it makes the new normal tolerable”