Thinking about language, while thinking _in_ language, leads to puzzles and paradoxes.
Google is where we go for answers. People used to go elsewhere or, more likely, stagger along not knowing.
Running for president is the new selfie.
The Internet is like a town that leaves its streets unmarked on the principle that people who don't already know don't belong
Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility.
The quotation-business is booming. No subdivision of the culture seems too narrow to have a quotation book of its own.... It would be an understatement to say that these books lean on one another. To compare them is to stroll through a glorious jungle of incestuous mutual plagiarism.