Baring the brunt

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From internet coverage of Colorado snowstorm October 2009:

"As the storm moved toward the nation's central plains, eastern Colorado bared the brunt of its tail end ..."

[closing down highways and airports]

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Commentary:


1)  I don't know how bad the storm was, but the description was a mess.

2) ... and we holed our writers to high standards of journalism.

3) They didn't say how many travelers' brunts were exposed ...

4) Double whacky!  The proper form is "bear the brunt" and past tense of "bear" is "bore."  But then, we have to wonder why one species is the passed tens of the other.

5) This writer is going to be the brunt of many jokes.

6) I always thought eastern Colorado's tail end was kinda bare anyway.

7) English grammar is only boaring to its native speakers.

8) Shutting down the airports should brunt the impact of the storm.

9) I'm out of 'em ... add your own right here.

Nice Backhand

You know I appreciate a good laugh, especially if it's droll. 

In this month's New York Review of Books, guest contributor Robert Darnton announces that the new Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) will be launched online, on April 18.

In his introductory remarks, preparing to describe what DPLA is, and its sigificance to humanity, Darnton delivers this immensely tragi-comical broadside on the modern political climate:

The American revolutionaries drew their inspiration from the Enlightenment — and from other sources, too, including unorthodox varieties of religious experience and bloody-minded convictions about their birthright as free-born Englishmen. Take these ingredients, mix well, and you get the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights — radical assertions of principle that would never make it through Congress today.

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/apr/25/national-digital-public-library-launched/

--gc

Overheard

"I speak, but language not my native English."