It seems I missed Squirrel Appreciation Day.

Nevertheless, here’s my…um…appreciation:

• The Scourge
• How to trap them
• May I kill them?

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Just like opinions from uberpessimists are devalued because they hate everything, if someone loves everything, they’re probably nice, but still not trustworthy.

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Gabe Doyle writes an excellent comparison of etiquette mavens and language mavens—both thrive on making definitive claims, supported by no evidence.

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Related:

• Replace whimsy with evidence: Use Merriam Webster’s Concise Dictionary of English Usage.
• Would you rather be wrong with Shakespeare or right with supercilious pedants?
• These kinds of books are sad: English serves you. You don’t serve English.
• Prescribed grammar rules are important…for making money and fitting in.

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Lamott:

It’s so much hipper to be a drunk than a bulimic. Drunks are like bikers or wrestlers; bulimics are baton-twirlers, gymnasts.

(Traveling Mercies, 192)

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