People want to understand Americans, especially Americans like Calvin & Hobbes.

My friend Lowell notices how one English newspaper in Thailand serves readers:

They print American comic strips, then explain why they’re funny.

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Real men smile: A lesson in photogeneity that I learned from my dad.

I was once embarrassed of full-out smiles.

Thankfully, I’m over that.

I learned from my dad, who can’t seem to help himself.

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Sneaked or snuck? Orison’s surreptitiousness gets me thinking about irregular verbs.

Verbs tend to regularize—holp became helped.

But oddly, sneak is irregularizing. What was sneaked is becoming snuck (in America, at least).

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If you feel like the internet gives too many people a voice, consider the alternative.

The opposite of the cult of the amateur is not some wonderful wisdom.

It’s the cult of the elite, which is worse.

(Paraphrase of Thabiti Anyabwile at Band of Bloggers.)

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Vocabularical vindication: Orison’s seeming plea for lenience revisited.

I just realized, five months later, that when Orison requested mercy when using the bathroom, he meant privacy.

I feel better now.

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