It shouldn t be the least bit surprising that I m not the only word nerd who works at the paper. So when a story shows up online using "Woah," someone s going to comment on our online workspace.
So many thoughts have crowded my head over the past week that it s been hard to settle on a topic for this week s column. But because I want to avoid politics if at all possible, I ll stick with my family.
Rather than expanding on the excellent editorial on the opposite page Tuesday on the subject of a letter printed on this page last Friday, I m going into word-nerd mode on a letter appearing here today. Politics have encroached into Every. Single. Area. of our lives. And in the fight over the definition of "insurrection," we ve headed there again.
Probably everyone has had to deal with a friend or family member who has given in to conspiracy theories. But where once those truly invested in outlandish tales that just a few seconds of research could debunk were usually given at least some access to the therapy they might need for their paranoia, now we reward them with seats in Congress and elsewhere.