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The lovely Meeegan points us to Double-Tongued Word Wrester Dictionary, a collection of newly-coined words and phrases. There is gold in that treasury, my friends. I’m still digging, but my favorite so far is “dance of the lemons” (the shuffling of ineffective teachers from school to school).

Today, I learned that “estilo Detroit”, or “Detroit-style”, is Spanish slang for anal intercourse, by play on the word “detrás” (meaning “behind”). Wikipedia has the details. Armed with this important knowledge, I went and Googled that phrase. I’m trying now to decide which result has the best unintentionally-funny use of the term. Early leaders are [...]

I just can’t focus on a damned thing, thanks to all manner of random activity in my brain today. Hopefully I can alleviate this by dumping core here. I am semi-secretly stoked that geekslut has returned to blogging. Wikipedia’s completed its upgrade to v1.5, thank God. Now I can breathe easily and go back to [...]

Two of ‘em, referred to me by others. Juan Cole throws down. Day-um. I almost feel sorry for Jonah Goldberg. Why hate-crime laws are necessary, or “some motives are more reprehensible than others, fuckheads”. (The word “fuckheads” never appears in that [excellent] post. i just like it.)

’cause this upgrade process is about to require some jeem-lovin’. Co-ed. Jell-O. Wrestling. AT THE SOUTH POLE. Friggin’ brilliant. I was originally going to post the Salon.com iteration of Dan Savage’s response to Gov. McGreevey’s resignation, but R* points me to the Guardian’s reprint that doesn’t require a “day pass”. but then again, R* also [...]