I have never liked the word “mouthfeel.” Ironically, I don’t like the way it feels in my mouth when I say it. And when I hear it or read it, I think of how it feels in my mouth.
If only there were a shorter, punchier way of saying “how something feels in your mouth.”
Stop saying “wrap your head around.” It’s a cliche, and it makes me think of catastrophic motorcycle accidents.
I was able to pill the dog this morning using “the force open her mouth, pop it in the back of her throat” method with minimal trauma to either of us. And I finished the operation with the same number of fingers I started out with.
“The housing crisis isn’t just a result of greedy landlords and investors. It’s an inevitable result of social policies that encourage people to treat their houses as in investment. Because once a homeowner internalizes the idea that their financial future depends on housing prices going up, they start favoring policies (such as NIMBYism) that make housing prices go up. “ www.tumblr.com/rudywiser…
If America continues on the path it is on now, today’s babies will grow up to dream of a life in India or China, because they will have no future here worth living.
Normalize not having TVs on in waiting rooms and other public places. If people want something to watch, they have phones.
The gulf between employers and the employed is constantly widening, and classes are rapidly forming, one comprising the very rich and powerful, while in another are found the toiling poor…. Corporations, which should be the carefully restrained creatures of the law and the servants of the people, are fast becoming the people’s masters.
— Grover Cleveland, as quoted by Heather Cox Richardson in a brief history of the first Labor Day.
Spoiler: Labor Day was founded as a sop to labor after business interests defeated the labor movement.
