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This one was just too right. (In other words: busted!)

[take the test] - [by krystaljungle.com]

You mean, like, whether or not to use a serial comma? What words it is best to hyphenate and when? Yeah, that's me.

P.S. I think this trumps being an Elite Grammar Whore because I am godly *and* flexible. Heh.

The Case For Impeachment

http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=16142

A touch on the rhetorical side (as all calls for impeachment must be), but enjoyable for those of a particular political bent.

(John Dean's touching naivete about the likelihood of our government flat-out lying to us was charming in its own way. Apparently he never considered the arrogance of power to be a factor.)

Mummy

This is probably way too esoteric for most of you.

I'm grumpy about the recent big "news" story about possibly discovering Nefertiti's mummy.

Except that examination of the evidence reveals that this claim is based on:

the mummy's "swanlike" neck.

a double-pierced ear.

the fact that the mummy was arranged in a royal pose.

...and that's about it.

This is not evidence. This is a publicity stunt.

Well, that was kinda depressing

I got mail from Social Security today, detailing my payments into the system since I started working in 1987. (I was 17.)

There are exactly two years in that span when I crack five digits.