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The Disagreement Pyramid. It’s like the food pyramid, only instead of sugar and grains, it ranks ad hominem and ‘ur mom.’

Have you ever noticed that: When you nail a point, it’s the same as when you hit the nail on the head? Both imply precision, even though nailing a picture to the wall is much different than squarely hitting a nail once. Congrats on not hitting your thumb, I guess. Then you can hammer something. [...]

“Show, don’t tell.” At first pass, it’s the solution to 90% of bad writing. It’s such a vague, catch-all instruction that if you’re in a writer’s workshop, you can prove you critiqued your peers by writing “show, don’t tell!” all over their stories. Strident red letters work best. I prefer to replace the “don’t” with [...]

The housing bubble? Yawn. That is so 2007. Think of it like an economic pacemaker: your heart stops, it shocks you, it hurts, and you’re ready to go. Then you die.

In most elevators, at least in any built or installed since the early nineties, the door-close button doesn’t work.

“Odd.” Now there’s a word that says just what it means.

A dark and stormy night The best of times The worst of times A pleasure to burn Like so, but wasn’t A queer, sultry summer The day my grandmother exploded A bright cold day in april Love at first sight.