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Monthly Archives December 2006

Holiday reminder

No shopping is required (unless you still need to buy your aluminum pole), but you should know that just ten days remain before Festivus. In the spirit of the holidays, I have made a donation in my readers’ names to the Human Fund.

Posted 13 December 2006 by Will § Observations ‡ Comments Off °

Incomplete reporting

The Associated Press Stylebook says: obscenities, profanities, vulgarities Do not use them in stories unless they are part of direct quotations and there is a compelling reason for them. Try to find a way to give the reader a sense of what was said without using the specific word or phrase. What silliness! If a [...]

Posted 08 December 2006 by Will § Observations ‡ Comments Off °

More athletes should write

I don’t follow basketball, but — starting today — I do read basketballers’ blogs. I gather that Gilbert Arenas is something of a character; his weblog is priceless (this post is timestamped December 29, 2006 — three weeks in the future): I brang out the hibachi against Dallas. That’s when I first started saying it, [...]

Posted 07 December 2006 by Will § Observations ‡ Comments Off °