It’s a bounty of goofs!

A queen reigns. You take the reins.

The leadership says it will vote. House leaders say they’ll vote. Pick one.

Umm, no, thanks.

You give/show respect. But you pay respects.

We mentioned this way back in January 2021, and several times since: Leaving prison does NOT make you an ex-felon. You now are an ex-inmate or ex-convict. But you’re still a felon! You still are someone who was convicted of a felony.
(But wait. There’s more! We have a misplaced modifier! The 7,000 people didn’t complete their sentences last week. The voting rights were reinstated last week.)

Ahh. Good old “all is not.” One more time: This says not a single instance of media trust is the same. What the headline should have said: “Not all media trust is created equal.”
(The Horribly Wrong team has been on the record that it doesn’t like “media.” Mainly because, as with the blind men and the elephant, you can’t find two people to agree on what “the media” is.)

These acronyms started as code for telegraphers and later were used in dispatches sent to news outlets by wire services. Now they’re common. Does everyone know what they mean? Readers?

And we go to the video archives for Segment 77: Watt’s in a name? https://youtu.be/XimRMXn3olw?si=Hms_6PWG93gscf7y

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