Idiom with a “t”!
Intelligent discourse would cease to exist if we over relied on idiomatic language. Take, for example, two buddies hanging out in a bar, ogling a total looker that neither has...
Just for Fun
“Don’t Call Me Wilfred!”
What immediately comes to mind when you hear the name Frankenstein? The monster, right? Well, it shouldn’t since Baron Victor von Frankenstein was the manufacturer, not the product. So that...
Amazing Drag
Until a few years ago, Amazing Grace had virtually no impact on me. What little it did was mostly negative. Then along came a play by the same name, a...
Acts of Discovery
The printing press, telephone, penicillin, nuclear fission, animation…these and so many other inventions continue to boggle the imagination. Take map makers, for instance. How did the first of their kind...