"Life is the lust of a lamp for the light that is dark till the dawn of the day when we die."

[larryhammer]

A walk-through of XKCD strip number 1110, including a link for seeing the image in a panning, zooming window.

How the US health-care system wastes G$750 annually. In case anyone overseas wonders why this is such a big deal. (via lost in browser tabs)

Of more local interest: tax cuts don't lead to economic growth, per historical data.

Word Spy's earliest citation for mansplain is 2009. Does anyone recall it being used earlier? Or better yet, have a cite?

(Subject line is Swinburne parodying himself.)

---L.

Comments

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

It's interesting that "mansplain", as defined there, doesn't stipulate the the person(s) on the receiving end of the mansplanation should be female - nor even that the mansplainer must be male. I'd have thought both those were criterial to the meaning, at least as I've seen it used.

[larryhammer]

Innit, though. Just "especially" if male.

---L.