Updates from editor people’s blogs: <\/p>\n
Newsdesigner <\/a>on Mondo Winkie<\/a> describes “Nah, I’m just a peon,” Advance Guy replies.<\/p>\n “Peon,” says large, one-eyed lady, “does that mean you want me to pee on “I would hope you wouldn’t,” Advance Guy says nervously. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Infomaniac<\/a> points to Media St. Louis Post-Dispatch military cheerleader Harry Levin has requested readers Of course, a perfectly suited “pithy and punchy” word already defines members Maybe Levin would object to reissuing GI for the Iraqi war because it excludes There’s no need to fashion any new words for this war. Some things never Off-topic<\/a> Maud Newton<\/a> links to
\nthe New York Times Magazine’s annual "people who died" issue. <\/p>\n
\nof those moments that always seem to happen to him. Excerpt: <\/p>\n\n
\nyou?”<\/p>\n
\nMayhem,<\/a> a new St. Louis media blog; a highlight: <\/p>\n\n
\nsubmit their suggestions for a ” word that would generically define military
\nservicemen and women. The Time magazine Man of the Year award prompted Levin
\nto put out the call. Levin took exception to Time casting all military personnel
\nas “soldiers.” The appropriate term should be “a pithy and punchy word —
\none short enough to nestle comfortably in a single-column headline — to cover
\neverybody in all four branches of the service,” Levin wrote in his Saturday
\ncolumn. I’m assuming Levin is looking for a bit of 21st-Century jingoism,
\nsufficiently imbued with a video-game vision of war. How about an acronym
\nlik e DOF, for Defenders of Freedom. I can see the headlines now: 25 DOFs
\nKilled in Roadside Bombing; or DOF Amputees Flood Walter Reed.<\/p>\n
\nof the armed services — GIs. A GI, accord ing to the American Heritage Dictionary,
\nis an “enlisted person or veteran of any of the U.S. armed forces.” The acronym
\nis an abbreviation for government issue. Originally, though, GI stood for
\ngalvinized iron, the stuff from which gar ba ge cans used to be forged. It
\ncame to represent men who swallow garbage and develop skins of iron. <\/p>\n
\nofficers. Like all wars, however, the grunts do the most fighting and dying.
\nBack in the “Good War,” GIs coined another phrase based on reality — SNAFU.
\nThe acronym stands for situation normal, all fucked up. <\/p>\n
\nchange.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\nlinks to a story that comes closer to the definition of irony: a candle causing
\na fire in the home of the deputy fire chief. Comment: I’m not sure this is really
\nirony; otherwise every fire that burns down the home of a firefighter would
\nbe ironic. Irony as I understand it means an outcome that is the opposite of
\nintent. There has to be an expressed intent for an ironic outcome; if the deputy
\nfire chief had made some fire-prevention precaution that accidentally caused
\nthe house to burn down, that<\/i> would be truly ironic. <\/p>\n
\nthe story of a guy <\/a>who made a living suing newspapers, and muses on the
\nconnection<\/a>
\nbetween drinking and good writing.<\/p>\n