Author Stephen King’s book On Writing is an excellent guide to the craft. In it, he warns that “the road to hell is paved with adverbs.” Much other writing advice also says to cut adverbs, and even adjectives. But is that truly good advice? Grant...
wide stance n.— Note: This term is too new to have a fixed meaning, but in general “wide stance” is being used to mean “hypocrisy.” «You can easily win any argument with a rightwinger now simply by accusing them of “taking the Republican Wide...
rark up v. phr.— «Didn’t you think, right at the beginning, when Bush was still working hard rarking up potential allies, “this doesn’t add up, this has the smell of hypocrisy and self-interest”?» —“Re: Who still believes we should have sent...