It’s been a mixed blessing of a first day for me since Wonkette’s e-mail cup, filled with bile and other assorted goodies, slosheth at only half full. (I’m told this never happens.) And the subject that’s been most bandied about at this neverending banquet of ass-fuckery? Linguistics, or more specifically The Note’s unexplained yanking of “jejune” — followed by the covert and highly weird replacement of it with “peppery” — from a post about Bush’s “cowboy swagger and yuppie self-consciousness.” MORE »