My Twins, who have scored one run in five consecutive games, and who were shut out in the game before that, have traded slugger Jim Thome to the Indians for a player to be named later: maybe they think they can score a run per game without him. Meanwhile, on my Blog Roll I've traded Majikthise for John McIntyre's You Don't Say. You got redirected when trying to link to Majikthise, and anyway I am the kind of dweeb who takes an interest in the questions that occupy copy editors like McIntyre. Plus he is another Johnsonian. About one post in ten makes mention of the man whom James Wolcott has called, in a post that introduced me to McIntyre, a "poet, critic, journalist, lexicographer, biographer, extemporaneous genius, befriender of the ragged and accomplished, and sputtering misshapen force of nature." Not to mention: "one of the greatest men to grace mankind." (McIntyre would probably say that Wolcott probably should have written "one of the greatest men to have graced mankind.) According to Wolcott, McIntyre is the "Dave Brubeck of the art and craft of copy editing." Quite the epigram maker, he.
I know, I know, language and copy editing: what could be duller? Who cares where or whether you place a comma? However:
I. I didn't marry Bob because I wanted a settled family life.
II. I didn't marry Bob, because I wanted a settled family life.
The words are the same, but you will perceive that, while the speakers are in agreement about the potential for enjoying a settled family life with Bob, (I.) married him and (II.) did not. If this is not the kind of subject matter that swells your corpuscles, there is a lot of plain good sense and a video joke of the week that's usually so bad it'll make you laugh.
