Annie Are You Oll Korrect?

I found this article about the history of the word, "OK" fascinating.

You see, long before our most common abbreviation like OMG and LOL existed, their 19th century predescesors were just a bit more interesting.

Apparnetly in the 1800's it was fashionable to alter the spellings of common phrases and their subsequent abbreviations.  So "no go," for example, would be changed to the homophonic "know go" and abbreviated k.g.

And this is how "OK" was created.

According to research by Allen Walker Read (who also studied the F word) and published in a book by Allan Metcalf, "OK," while having cognates in many different languages, (from Louisiana French "au quai" and the German "Ober-Kommando" to the Chocktaw "Okeh") actually originates from an abbreviation for an altered spelling of "all correct" (oll korrect) that was first published as a "joke" in an 1839 Boston Post article.

PKH? (Pretty Kool, huh?)

Hillary Clinton "honest and trustworthy?"

Nice to see that, finally, after twenty years of covering both Clintons for the Wall Street Journal and NYTimes, Jill Abramson is now brave enough to publicly state in her piece for the Guardian that, "Hillary Clinton is fundamentally honest and trustworthy" and "There are no instances I know of where Clinton was doing the bidding of a donor or benefactor."

Far be it from Abramson, though to discuss twenty years of her and the mainstream media carrying water for the conservative attacks on Clinton's credibility, which, as Drum notes have, "successfully poisoned not just the electorate in general, but even the progressive movement itself."

The Bottled Spirits on Vinyl

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"Mothballs & Bloodmeal" Video

As promised, here's the official video for the Thingz song, "Mothballs & Bloodmeal" from our album, Red Future.  Enjoy!!

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