In a flurry of texts yesterday I thought I might have come up with a potentially useful neologism: to maltweet, and hence maltweetment. I was wrong.

I was walking across a bridge one day, and I saw a man standing on the edge, about to jump off.

So I ran over and said, "Stop! Don't do it!"

"Why shouldn't I?"

"Well, there's so much to live for!"

"Like what?"

"Well, are you religious or atheist?"

"Religious."

"Me too! What are you? Ch...

Friend Derek has been digging into a recent Harper's Weekly poll showing that more Americans (76%) say they would vote for a homosexual than for an atheist (49%). This, he notes, is a change on 1988, when the same poll -- different people? -- gave 26% to 31%. Derek’s conclusion:

Americans are...

Facebook's most recent set of changes prompted me to explore Google+ and if nothing else it is a lot easier on the eye, probably because I don't have all that many circle members, or whatever they're called, yet. Of course, ultimately one wants everything duplicated everywhere¹ so I wandered ove...

He was nine years old; he was a child; but he knew his own soul, it was dear to him, he protected it as the eyelid protects the eye, and did not let anyone into his soul without the key of love. His educators complained that he did not want to learn, yet his soul was overflowing with a thirst for...