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Air Force Steals Song (maybe); Parentheses Are Abused

NOTICE: Boring post follows. But don’t get too bored. It’s bad for your health. The White Stripes claim that their song was stolen and used in the Air Force ad shown during the Superbowl. Ok. I don’t want to talk about it here (but let me Google that for you). Which makes me wonder: Should [...]

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Save the Semicolon!

Kurt Vonnegut doesn’t like semicolons. “I have never used semicolons,” Vonnegut says.
… semicolons are “transvestite hermaphrodites,” giving no meaning except to show that the author went to college….

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