Henceforth, y’all may refer to me as “patient zero.” I’m not feeling too good – in fact, this feels a bit like the flu that’s gonna wipe out 99% of humanity. Better already now contemplate whether you’re on Team Mother Abagail or Team Randall Flagg. Or learn to walk faster than 3 km/h so you […]

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I propose we split the use of the word “abuse” into “misabuse” and “abuse.” The contemporary misabuse of the word implicitly implies that abuse is bad. Examples: abuse of power to make everybody see things my way (good), misabuse of power to kill 60 million of your political opponents (bad), abuse of bacon (good!), misabuse […]

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