This is one of the better summaries of ch. 2 of RRC I’ve seen so far.
Liquidity
Tattoos as a Search for Fixity in a Liquid World
R. R. Reno is thoughtful and always worth reading. (HT: Lawn Gospel) Actually Related Post The Church of Steel vs A Cross of Wood
All the Children Are Not Above Average
In Lake Wobegon all the children are above average. Outside of Lake Wobegon, however, it isn’t so. Therein lies the problem. Of course Garrison Keillor is being funny. In the nature of things, all the children cannot be above average. A recent . . . Continue reading →
Grammar Guerilla: Affect and Effect, Sex and Gender
These two sets of words present two different problems. The first, affect and effect, is that two words sound alike and are formally distinguished by vowels that can be easily confused for one another. Nevertheless, affect and effect do mean different things. . . . Continue reading →
Grammar Guerrilla: Punctuation Is Not Mean Spirited. Full Stop.
According to a number of media stories (the original story appeared in the UK Telegraph) Generation Z, those born 1995–2015, find certain punctuation marks threatening. The argument is that the use of the period (“full stop” in the UK) in text messages (and . . . Continue reading →