Just some beginning-of-year stuff. I have some blog resolutions:
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Use the following words and phrases more: bien-pensant;
psephological;
cromulent.
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Stop saying "Congresscritter". Replace with "Congressdroid".
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Don't call people "fascists" (loc. cit.). Unless they are.
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Use obscure Latin abbreviations like loc. cit. more often.
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Repeatedly
use incorrect pronouns, if they happen to be (nonetheless) accurate.
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Generally cut back on adverbs. Like "generally".
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Oops.
If you're interested—and I can't think why you would be—I perled up a script to scrape through the blog and make (IMHO) attractive pages showing the movies/books I watched/read in 2014.
If you missed it: This post from March, an old-fashioned fisking of the program for the "Future Leaders Institute" at the University Near Here, might be my favorite from last year.
I'm in agreement with Kevin D. Williamson: making predictions is difficult, especially about the future. But his seems safe, and I'll concur:
So here’s the one prediction I will make: 2015 will be one of the best years in human history. And next December, we’ll all be bitching about it.
Happy New Year to all.