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The road to global warming is paved with good intentions

By Chuck La Tournous | Published: April 9, 2009
My biggest problem with “Go Green” initiatives (and the plain ol’ “environmentally friendly” ones before them) is that well-intentioned people jump on them without considering their impact because no one wants to be seen as hurting the environment. We’ve all heard stories about how the environmental impact of recycling material can be greater than properly [...]
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Happy Birthday, ‘Elements of Style’

By Chuck La Tournous | Published: March 25, 2009
Strunk and White’s The Elements of Style turned 50 the other day. It and The AP Stylebook have always been indispensible tools in my writing. I always get a kick out of the fact that such an authoritative work of scholarship was co-written by the guy who gave us Charlotte’s Web.
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