Author: Carl Atiya Swanson
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The Joys of an Oxfordless Comma
First of all, let me say this: I am no comma hater. I love the comma. I overuse the comma. The comma is the gilt flourish of a sentence, framing one idea and then moving onto the next. It is a glorious, emphatic and multi-faceted thing, the “fuck” of punctuation. “Fuck this fucking motherfucker”; “Fuck,…
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A Defense of Neckties
Ladies and Gentlemen, I understand why you may find the necktie distasteful. It has been abused by corporate intentions, slandered as a tool of conformist oppression and diminished as a symbol of repressed desire. It’s a con to get men to spend money on unnecessary clothing. It is true that the Hollywood protagonist, when realizing…