If someone is “poor as Joe’s turkey,” he’s impoverished. A caller raised in the South has heard that expression all his life, but wonders: Who was Joe, and what did his turkey have to do with anything? Things get clearer when...
Christianist n.— «First, let’s just call these people what they are: Christianists. They have an extraordinarily narrow view of the world that they seek to impose on the rest of us in the style of a theocracy. They want us to teach only...