National Coming Out Day

Since I’ve been out for decades now, I’ll devote this post to knocking neocons off their crosses.

Hey, you jeebus twits–if you love me so freaking much, leave me alone!  Do your mumbo jumbo talk amongst yourselves; I don’t want to be bothered by nutsos who think someone up in the sky talks to them.

You people really expect me to take advice from you all?  From people who believe in some collective imaginary friend?  Uh, no can do!

Guess what?  I don’t have a sick need to make myself take stock in a make believe world.  A delusional world where some white man, dressed up like a kid in a Halloween ghost costume, sits on my shoulder whispering into my ear.  That’s some freaky crap.

Ah, that’s better!  Happy Coming Out Day!

Plethoric myriad obfuscations

There’s a pethora of myriad obfuscations around the web lately.  Ha, how’s that?  Seriously.  What’s it about?  Is it that bloggers have a hope that their posts will get more hits if they use big words like myriad and obfuscate?  Why make readers stumble over obfuscate, when it’s just as easy to write “confusing.”  I’m certainly not a grammar and usage expert, but I do think it’s silly to use words just because “everyone else is doing it.”

This is especially true when one doesn’t even know the proper usage for an appropriated word.  If I had a nickel for every time I’ve seen “a myriad of” I would be worth more than a Blackwater no-bid defense contract!

Example:  There’s a myriad of sand at the beach.

Doesn’t that sound awkward?  It’s better to say “a ton of.”  One can’t have “a myriad of” anything.  Also, when people use myriad, I have no doubt that they really mean to say ”a bunch of,” “multitudes,” or even “many,  many, many.”  These myriad users surely don’t intend to write “uncountable.”  Really, when’s the last time you read a “myriad” statement from which you understood that the writer meant an indefinite, or infinite number?

Example:  The myriad grains of sand at the beach.

Ah, that’s better.  Are you less obfuscated now?