jargon

A pastor from Bells Bend asks to get a witness against the May Town Center team and the Planning staff in Sunday's Tennessean:

• Hacks divided by an (un)common jargon | Martin Stabe

For at least a year now, I've watched in silent horror as the masterminds at Nintendo have made scores of mommybloggers their betches by plying them with

If you've been watching carefully, you may have noticed that some photos on the web site now have the words "Order this photo" at the end of the caption (I almost wrote "cutline," which is newspaper jargon for a caption). You can now order prints, T-shirts, plaques, mouse pads, coffee cups and other merchandise from T-G photos posted here. We hope you enjoy this new feature...

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“I predict there’s a book deal evolving out of this . . .”

In discussions of Constitutional interpretation, an interesting concept has turned up in the last few years in the context of a why a position is or is not Constitutional. It’s stated in some form of the idea that “the Constitution is a living document”.

Thanks to K-Lo I learned of Barack Obama’s level of military knowledge:

“I heard from a Army captain, who was the head of a rifle platoon, supposed to have 39 men in a rifle platoon. Ended up being sent to Afghanistan with 24, because 15 of those soldiers had been sent to Iraq. And as a consequence, they didn’t have enough ammunition; they didn’t have enough humv