Going through my email

 Still drowning in email.  What can I say?  The non-profits love me.  Most of them... the occasional one sends me an email saying "You know, you haven't opened our last seven emails."  Amnesty International and Oceana seem to have given up on me permanently, but I'm working my way back to them, babe.  Anyway, I probably shouldn't be helping out the scam artists... the many, many scam artists.  I suppose we should pick another word soon: the art of Rembrandt, the art of the pickpocket.  But they're close!  They're basically grammatically correct.  Somehow, they always manage to find the most irritating grammatical error.  Take, for example.....

Superscript Test

1 x 10¹⁰

Bonus: Underline!!

Underline with Italics!!!

Underline with Italics 2

The IMDb

On Will Smith's bio/trivia page on the IMDb, there is a list of Will Smith's friends, and.... um, you might want to update it a little bit!

Typo Is The New Fact Check / Multiple Sources

 I gotta do everything around here.  Got a bone to pick, Mediaite!  Here's the link.  Okay, the typo is before the "Continue Reading" button, so that's another lesson for you.  But you've probably gotten a couple hundred messages to your Smartphones (TM) (R) (C) already.  And that's from outraged people on the Right!  Maybe I shouldn't bother then... I'll just say this.  ALWAYS make sure you get your Dana's right, whether it's Dana Andrews, Dana Delany, Dana Carvey, Dan Abrams, Dana Barrett, Dana Bash or Dana Perino.  In this case, it was a mix-up of the last two.... I know, right?  HUUUUUUGE difference.

Homework Assignment

ITS useful life!  ITS!!!!!  NO APOSTROPHE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Gaylord or Gayland?

I was doing a little research on the so-called Eleventh Commandment.  I thought it said "Thou Shalt Not Attack Thy Fellow Republican."  But according to both Wikipedia AND Conservapedia... you can find that one yourself... the actual text of the commandment is "Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican."  In the era of Trump, however, they might have to expand that to include depositions in court.  After all, most Conservatives seem to answer to a higher power than the American court system when it comes to crunch time. 
Anyway, this "Eleventh Commandment" is credited to Ronald Reagan, but apparently was created by a feller named Gaylord Parkinson.  Alas, it didn't raise his standing in the Internet Age.  A little hard to find articles about him, especially with a name like Gaylord.  But according to Conservapedia, the feller's name is Gay LAND Parkinson.  So which is it?  Is it Gaylord or is it Gayland?  I think the answer is sooo over here...

What is....

Let's face it... the world moves very very fast, and the people who get paid minimum wage to type out these Yahoo! News blurps have only so many hours in a day.  I may have blogged this brain fart before, but I remember some snot-nosed kid came into the student newspaper and started lecturing the editor about typos in an issue or two of the paper... I probably should've spoken up at the time, but I'm just too polite of a guy, and I always believe in letting people speak their piece, no matter how verbose and pushy they get.  Apparently the kid wanted to come and work for the paper.  And of course, I'm sure that as soon as he got there, all typos would suddenly vanish on his watch.  In between all his other courses, his tumultuous private life, and everything that goes on at a busy student newspaper, all typos would be gone forever and ever amen.  Alas, we'll just never know how it all turned out... but I do know how this turned out.  NUEROPATHY?  Really?  Seriously?  BOTH SPELLINGS ARE THERE!!!  I mean, the correct one's in the small print under the headline, of course.