Archive for category: People

Buxtonism    (2017.12.09)

I have learned a great deal from my distant acquaintance Bill Buxton

‘Shirtlifter’ “LGBT”    (2015.09.14)

I do wish Steve MacIsaac would stop saying “LGBT”

Russell Smith changes his mind, apparently    (2015.03.14)

A mere 18 years later, Russell Smith changes his mind about Bruce LaBruce

Somebody buy Russell Smith an iPad    (2012.03.11)

Novelist/columnist/journalist/bon vivant Russell Smith needs to quit dramatically bemoaning that his literary career is over the next time he suffers a retinal detachment. Instead, he needs an iPad

Ben Hammersley again proves his worth    (2011.09.12)

In another context, Renaissance man Ben Hammersley’s speech to the British security intelligentsia would be called speaking truth to power

Russell Smith’s visual impairment    (2011.08.25)

Russell Smith’s retinal detachment led him to complain that possible tasks are impossible. Let’s help him out!

Wannabe Brit laments Canadian English    (2011.06.21)

Here we have what is easily the dumbest thing written about English linguistics in ’011

Russell Smith: ‘Grammar Wars’    (2011.06.10)

Russell Smith spoke to magazine editors about usage. They ought to be careful following his advice