OPINION | BRENDA LOOPER: You ol’ cuss

For the second week in a row, this is not the column I intended to write. I'll eventually get back to what I started on logical fallacies (whataboutism, ad hominem attacks, etc.), but a few weeks spent taking care of very sweet cats has dampened that fire. So ... sorry if you were expecting something to get het up about, but it's a word-nerdy day today.

Frequent correspondent and fellow word nerd Howard Hughes often emails me new words he's learned (one of my favorites is "Sciamachy--A fight against imaginary enemies," which entirely too many people seem to be engaged in now; I may come back to that in a future column) or links to articles about words, the most recent a blog post on curse words ...