Where is your conscience, my friend?Killing millions, occupying their landGathering other people’s property in your hands How can you sleep, or rest, in peaceWhen others have really nothing to eat Where is your conscience, my friend?Suppressing opinions, brainwashing young menPurging oppositions to further your own ends How can you eat and not feel sickBy the… Read More: Where Is Your Conscience? »
You know, sometimes when you are reading the news, and you go like “Damn… I could have written the headline!” Here are a couple that I have been toying with lately: “Guess what? She’s dead!”About the sudden departure of Anna Nicole Smith “Rollin out of Dell”About the not-so-sudden departure of Kevin Rollins Of course, I… Read More: I could have written that! »
1. Never use one word where ten will do.2. Never use a small word where a big one will do suffice.3. Never use a simple statement where it appears that one of substantially greater complexity will achieve comparable goals.4. Never use English where Latin, mutatis mutandis, will do.5. Qualify virtually everything.6. Do not be embarrassed… Read More: 10 principles of legal writing »
A Filipino Romeo offers one of the most explicit yet poetic sets of reasons.
Want to find out if your writing style has a distinct feminine touch? Or does it reek of male chauvinism? Well then, check out Gender Genie, a website designed to predict whether a piece of writing is likely to have been written by a male or a female author. The tool is based on a… Read More: Is your writing masculine or feminine? »
The blog post titled “When a Crane Flies, Duck” by Joe Wilcox under Microsoft Watch not only flies in the face of good taste, the pun is also lame, to say the least. This creeping tabloidization, where heretofore respectable news organisations are succumbing to the subjects and techniques of tabloid journalism, exploits visceral emotions aimed… Read More: Tabloid journalism rears its ugly head online »