Use the right word, not its second cousin.

I've seen this too often to post links or cite references, but religions have tenets, not tenants.

tenant n. 1. a person or group that rents and occupies land, a house, an office, or the like, from another, usu. under the terms of a lease; lessee. 2. an occupant or inhabitant of any place. -- v.t. 3. to hod or occupy as a tenant; dwell in; inhabit. --v.i. 4. to dwell or live (usu. fol. by in).

tenet n. any opinion,principle,doctrine, dogma, etc., esp. one held as true by members of a profession, group, or movement.


(Definitions from my copy of Random House's Webster's College Dictionary; title of post stolen unashamedly from Mark Twain.)

wtf? Seriously, WTF?????

A guy (hipster, or maybe just hipster-wannabe) wears a jean-jacket with Charles Manson's face on it and is featured on Styleite as a new low in hipster fashion. He claims that the jacket wasn't his, he didn't know who Manson was, he had to Google Manson to find out, and while Manson was "creepy," it's even creepier that the woman who wrote the piece for Styleite knew who Manson was.

Er... being able to identify one of the most famous serial murderers in American history is creepier than the famous serial murderer is? Mentioning that the guy's friend's jacket is a fashion low is "propagating his creepiness," but his buddy, who bought the jacket, and the person who made the jacket escape condemnation for "propagating [Manson's] creepiness"?

Wow. Just... wow.

Also--wtf?



ETA: Styleite has posted a follow-up in which another man claims (with some credible evidence) to be the man in the Manson jacket, which is another wtf? moment, but it makes the impostor's post even more wtf? If you ask me, which you didn't, but there it is.

Arizona Politics

Dear Idiot(s):

I hope you're not complaining about government waste and government budgets being out of whack, because this sort of thing costs taxpayers money and helps to make the budgets out of whack. You wouldn't want to be a hypocrite on top of being idiots, racists (don't complain about that--if you don't want to be called a racist, don't use swastikas), terrorists, and all-around assholes, would you?

Thank you.

Seriously?

It was reported in The New York Times today that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas's wife called Anita Hill at her office at Brandeis University to ask for an apology from her "and some full explanation of why you did what you did with my husband." Mrs. Thomas considers this to be extending an olive branch.

You have got to be kidding me.

I learned in 2nd grade that if you have to ask for an apology, it probably isn't going to be sincere, and that's if the person doing the apologizing actually did something wrong. In this case, it's Justice Thomas who did something wrong, and his wife wants an apology from the person who was wronged?

This country is doomed, I tell you.

(I won't even get into the grammar and spelling issues.)