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Good one.
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Ken - August 4, 2018

The black foam thingy is called a windscreen . “Windscreen and grilles are covers that improve the sound quality of a microphone. Normally a windscreen is made from foam and a grille from metal. They act as a filter to prevent popping, breath sound, moisture and wind noise from reaching your mic.” W...

John, ‘Unami’ with a capital “U” is listed in many dictionaries as the only definition of ‘unami.’ My Random House Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary , for example, lists the following when I type in ‘unami’: Unami noun : 1. One of the two Algonquian languages of the Delaware peoples, originally spoken...

[[This is a corrected version of this posting. As Erik Kowal pointed out below the correct spelling for this taste sense is "umami" and not "unami."]] <2018 “Scientists think they can reduce greenhouse gas emissions by tweaking the food that cows eat. A recent experiment from the University of Calif...

<2018 “China ‘declared economic war on us years ago’ by forcing U.S. companies in China to surrender their intellectual property, dumping steel and aluminum at artificially low prices, and propping up state-owned firms. President Trump should do whatever it takes to bring the regime to heel. He sho...

Very moving!
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Ken Greenwald - June 3, 2018

Those who jump off a bridge in Paris are in Seine. A man's home is his castle, in a manor of speaking. Dijon vu - the same mustard as before. Practice safe eating - always use condiments. Shotgun wedding - A case of wife or death. A man needs a mistress just to break the monogamy. A hangover is the ...

The first are called "latch locks" and the second are called "chain locks."
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Ken Greenwald - May 28, 2018

<2018 “The other question is whether Trump is a political anomaly or the start of a new era . . . Since Trump has gaslighted so dramatically and so successfully, will future political leaders also embrace lying as a deliberate strategy?”— The Week , 18 may, page 17> “Gaslight” used in this manner i...

It’s called a “whirlpool” and Wikipedia has an article on it here.
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Ken Greenwald - May 9, 2018

Another recent example of the use of ‘mulligan.’ <2018 “In one of his first interviews since joining Mr. Trump’s legal team, Mr. Giuliani appeared to briefly stun Sean Hannity of Fox News by asserting that the president had reimbursed his personal lawyer for a $130,000 hush payment to Stephanie Clif...

<2017 “‘But every author can taste the poison another has slipped into the punch,’ and the critic ended by calling Arthur ‘a magniloquent spoony .”— New York Times Book Review > Here’s the word that ‘magniloquent' modified in my previous posting and I would classify it as archaic. Merriam-Webster.co...

<2017 “‘But every author can taste the poison another has slipped into the punch,’ and the critic ended by calling Arthur ‘a magniloquent spoony.’”— New York Times Book Review (in book review of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book Less: A Novel by Sean Greer) Note: spoony to be addressed in a subsequen...

Tony,

Very good way of looking at it.

Ken

<2018 “Liberals often like to accuse the Right of ‘ epistemic closure ’—a refusal to consider any evidence that contradicts their cherished beliefs and biases.”— The Week , April 20, page 12> It’s hard for me to visualize accusing anyone with the phrase ‘epistemic closure,’ but I suppose philosophy...