Women are from Mars?

Those who claim women are from Venus and therefore condemn aggressive, warring women as un-feminine - maybe it’s time to take a hike? On Mars? 
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=509693&in_page_id=1770

In which Buddhahood is narrowly averted

This post is about four great sights that had mind-blowing effects on me. But unlike the Buddha’s epochal sights, two of mine were seen online and one in a newspaper. Ah! The times they are a-changing. You don’t need to go on insomnia-induced midnight walks for pardigm-shifting sights.They’re everywhere.
Sight # 1
Stanley Fish’s blog. (He of [...]

Rumours of my blog-death are greatly exaggerated

I am alive and well.
Just swamped. Teaching. Reading. Working on projects. And being homemaker. Yes, I struggle to manage home and work. And no, pity is not appreciated, thank you.
Posting shall happen tonight and nothing will prevent it.
Or do I mean posting will happen tonight and nothing shall prevent it? English teachers can never make up their minds, can they?

Yo is relieved of sex

Dennis Baron reports the arrival of a new gender-neutral pronoun, Yo.
What’s that? Well, I’ll let you read his explanation: 
Yo is a gender-neutral pronoun because it’s used both for males and females. As the name implies, gender-neutral pronouns are ones which contain no indication of the gender of their referent. In English, all our first and second [...]

English underfoot

Why did I do it? Why did I choose to travel by the metro train to my publisher’s office, a good 26 km from home, instead of just driving over? I asked myself this question repeatedly.

First, at the deserted reservation counter near Platform 1, where I was told to go to Platform 6 to buy a ticket. 

Second, when I was told, after buying the ticket, to return to Platform [...]