Nod and Smile

Who cares what people say about prescriptive grammar.  Grammar and punctuation nitpicking was the privilege of a time when people knew how to write.  There are better ways to spend your time.  And since when is the Microsoft Word “green squiggle” the authority on language use?
Which at the beginning of a restrictive relative clause has […]

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If you think you’ve got it rough, at least you can take comfort that you aren’t having as bad of a day as Jack Rebney the Winnebago Man.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuSERHqzKwI

Or maybe you are. In which case, you can take this as a strategy for blowing off some steam:
“I don’t want any more bullshit anytime during the […]

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This is a fabulous piece on how to avoid freaking out because you missed a deadline from insidehighered.com
If only I had read it sooner…

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from phdcomics.com:

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“They might be [reading your abstract] on a plane. Between two bloody marys.” -Z.B.

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from kxcd.com:

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