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The Planet Fitness in Midland County, Michigan recently had a conflict between one of its core company values and one of its customers.  In the kind of move that I wish we'd see more often, they fired the customer. Yvette Cormier said she felt threatened…

The manbox does not give up its captives lightly. Consider Andrew O'Hagan, who wrote this tragic piece for the NY Times magazine a couple weeks ago. O'Hagan has got the weepies, he's got 'em bad. He's not allowed to smoke or absorb other carcinogens or eat bags…

As you might have read, I am no great fan of "verbing" -- the act of changing words that are different parts of speech into verbs by simply using them that way. To quote Calvin, "it weirds language." But I heard a word verbed recently…

South Carolina state Senator Thomas Corbin (R - of course) was quoted last week by a site called FITSNews, speaking to his lone female colleague, Katrina Shealy, regarding her gender. Just as I was absorbing this, I saw that Mississippi Rep. Gene Alday (R - acist)…