Disingenuous. That’s 21 states and 42 senators.

Now do representatives, which was originally supposed to match population distribution.

IMHO “compassion” would be a better substitute.

… But first, let’s shoot fireballs at it!

I remember that, I thought it was poetic. I also remember the pearl clutching outrage.

Though a few visits ago at my local zoo two of the orangutans were beating the shit out of a seagull for fun, with naught outrage.

So there’s probably a double standard built-in.

Speedrunning the decline and fall of the Roman empire.

a rare bombing of American citizens by U.S. civilian authorities

rare.

Actually snorted.

Though today we get:

Find out what these big four names were convicted of!

Bong and a crepe?

That’s like having google make a pizza with everything in my fridge then they complain that I also keep the dog’s food in there.

… A sunny disposition?

How amazing computer games look now.

I mean, I’m impressed now, on behalf of ten year old me I suppose.

“42”

“The answer to life the universe and everything is 42!?”

“Yes, I checked it quite thoroughly.”

…

“But what was the actual question?”

Alternatively, garbage in, garbage out.

The launch codes are 00000 anyway, so…

OMG that’s even an absolute scale!

“Somebody shit in my pants.”

It’s correct, as much as any English is correct, but not typically spoken naturally like that.

The press (newspapers) has an idiosyncratic grammar, probably born of maximising space in a newspaper column. Headlines are often grammatical nightmares, body copy less so.

One could think of it as a form of semantic compression.

Yeah, doing that alone is incredibly stupid. She’s probably luck not to have been shot.

“There’s only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people’s cultures and the Dutch.” – Nigel Powers

I too am an etymology geek, I had to look up “aptronym” (I already knew there was a word for it, but couldn’t remember it) but already knew “patronym”. I can occasionally work out the approximate Latin roots of words and take a stab at what to search for.

Regarding names’ positions moving around… that’s just people. People name their children all sorts of stupid things that eventually become normal.