It’s been a week since we last posted – on accounta we’ve been busier’n a borrowed mule around here. Don’t have much time for the usual profundity, so I’ll just leave these here for you:
14 Fun Facts about Roller Coasters – one of which is that they “were initially developed as a distraction from Satan’s temptations.”
Your semi-regular reminder that writing is hard.
Speaking of which, Comma Queen Mary Norris reports on “The Long Hot Summer of Grammar.”
A shallow lake, 16,400 feet above sea level in the Himalayas, holds the bones of as many as 500 people. But it gets even weirder, thanks to a recent DNA study.