New Blog to Check OutLongtime commenter Songbird has
started an intelligent new blog. The blog is only a few days old but there are already quite a few posts. I particularly found
this story amusing about the outrage over a city councilman's use of the term "tar baby". The purported origination of the word is particularly shocking, but the real origin that Songbird found is quite a bit more prosaic.
This myth is even more ridiculous than the feminist canard that "rule of thumb" comes from a common-law understanding that men could "rule" their women with a stick no bigger in diameter than their thumb. Never mind that "rule of thumb" has nothing to do with ruling people--it's just a quick measure. And in fact carpenters in the old days would estimate the height of a stack of wood by standing back a few feet and measuring it with their thumb. Hence, rule of thumb.
Anyway, stop in and check out
Songbird's blog!