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Sex Sells… Etymology?

July 24th, 2007 · 1 Comment

So this is a little bit random. This scantily clad YouTuber is flaunting herself in order to get more attention and more views. However, her videos all relate to word origins or word games. Although she inserts random pictures of bikini-wearing models into her videos, her main focus is etymology. I […]

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Tags: Etymology · Video

The Manichean Paranoia Patch

May 13th, 2007 · 2 Comments

In the course of poking around the Internet, looking for blog title inspiration, I stumbled across something interesting. Many people are familiar with the phrase “Manichean Paranoia.” The first time I heard it was during a recent interview with Jimmy Carter’s National Security Advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski (whose name, incidentally, is worth 57 points in Scrabble). […]

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Tags: Etymology · Political · Religion