"The em-dash was not invented last November in a Silicon Valley server farm. It has been a staple of English prose since roughly the seventeenth century, and a darling of the literary canon for nearly as long. Laurence Sterne built Tristram Shandy on it. Lord Byron reached for it to grieve."

~ Chitown Kev

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Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: The aftermath isn’t aftermath-ing…in some respects

Heather Cox Richardson writes at her “Letters from an American” Substack about Trump’s comments to White House Correspondents Dinner attendees following shots…

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