Life of Mhom
"It is impossible to reason someone out of something that he did not reason himself into in the first place." Jonathan Swift
Wednesday, August 23, 2006
Tuesday, August 22, 2006
Thursday, August 17, 2006
Sunday, August 13, 2006
Wednesday, August 02, 2006
Sucks be to you
A defense of the word sucks.
Excerpt: Sucks is the most concise, emphatic way we have to say something is no good. As a one-syllable intransitive verb, it offers superb economy. Granted, some things require more involved assessments (like, say, James Joyce: I find his early work unparalleled in its style and its evocation of emotion, while his later writing became willfully opaque in a manner that leaves me cold). But other things don't require this sort of elaboration (like, say, John Grisham: He sucks). --Seth Stevenson, Slate Magazine











