by Kevin Burton Good day you awesome readers! Are you sick yet of the word “awesome”? The term’s overuse is sparking some awesome outrage among speakers of English. Some generational friction emerges when you look into who is cool with “awesome” and who is not. “Awesome” started with the California surfer crowd …
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Rapping To The Ladies, Wishful Thinking
by Kevin Burton I love the Doobie Brothers, but I have a complaint. Let’s engage in a little wishful thinking, shall we? I wish Michael McDonald would enunciate. Wishful thinking is “the attribution of reality to what one wishes to be true or the tenuous justification of what one wants to believe,” according …