Via The New York Times:

Last month, the standards editor at The New York Times wrote a memo that shocked — shocked! — bloggers everywhere. He asked Times writers to avoid using the word “tweet” (as in, “to say something on Twitter”).

“We don’t want to seem Paleolithic,” he wrote. “But we favor established usage and ordinary words over the latest jargon or buzzwords.”

I guess tweet is a buzzword. So from now on, let’s all call it “sending a tweet.” Also, I will not “mail” any ‘thank you’ cards — I will be sending a piece of mail. Because, when used as a verb, “mail” is such a buzzword of the 1800s. Same goes for “e-mail.” I will only be “sending an electronic mail” from here on out. Friggin’ jargon, always trying to butt its way into my writing.

Via The AP:

Roethlisberger told Pittsburgh TV stations KDKA and WTAE that he doesn’t have an alcohol problem. Before the alleged assault, Roethlisberger and his party ordered considerable amounts of alcohol.

[Adam Hart] Because every time I see a joke ad with a mascot being tackled by old-fashioned asylum attendants, I think “that’s exactly how mental patients must act — GET ‘EM!”

Sigh. It appears this ad is “blatantly offensive,” according to Michael Fitzpatrick, executive director of Arlington-based National Alliance on Mental Illness. This, despite the woman in the ad telling the attendants that they are in fact “nuts” for not appreciating King’s zest for low-priced hamburgers.

Is it that the ad never pinpoints a specific type of mental health disorder — “Stop that King, he’s crazy!” and “this King’s insane”? Would “Stop that King, he’s paranoid schizophrenic!” or “this King’s got brief psychotic disorder” have smoothed things over? …Actually, no. That probably wouldn’t made it worse.

[Adam Hart] If Sarah Palin is going to use a cheat sheet, she might as well go with a professional one like Tom Brady uses. But writing on the palm of your hand? What is this, high school biology?