Why Do People Hate ‘We Built This City’?

by Kevin Burton    I missed it, completely. It was totally over my head. I guess it’s just somebody’s else’s fight.    “We Built This City” by Starship was number one on the US Hot 100 40 years ago this month. It’s catchy. I liked it then, still do.    I loved the era when …

Retronyms: The New Defining The Old

by Kevin Burton    We all know that time marches on. So does technology and so does the language we use to describe it.    Today from our friends at Merriam-Webster dictionary, we get some phrases made necessary by those inexorable marches. They are called retronyms. Think of them as a blast to the past. …