Beyond the Rhetoric

It’s a debate that probably won’t see any official and unanimous resolution any time soon, but that’s all the more reason why it’s worth discussing. If you run just about any kind of blog on the Internet, you may ask yourself whether you should close comments on older posts. That’s what I did for some [...]

“Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn’t be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn’t know that so it goes on flying anyway.” While it may not be completely true that you are only limited by your imagination, it is only by trying to achieve the impossible that you can experience the extreme limits of your ability. In [...]

Several years back, I remember I was watching an episode of Friends when the Joey character made a variation on a very common mistake. You can watch the scene on YouTube, but here’s the gist of it: Rachel asks Phoebe and Monica how much time she should wait before it is appropriate to “make a [...]

Well, it’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for. As you may remember, I launched the Some Say Contest last Thursday, encouraging Beyond the Rhetoric readers to provide their best “some say” introduction for the Stig from Top Gear. For those of you who aren’t familiar, Top Gear is a hugely popular car show that [...]

Before I get down to the usual speedlink that I do every Wednesday, it’s worth noting that my Some Say Contest contest ends tomorrow morning. There’s about $150 worth of stuff up for grabs, so make sure you enter the giveaway in time. I’ll be announcing the winner tomorrow. With that matter out of the [...]