Vexed Americana

July / August, 2012

HOW DID WE BECOME SUCH A NATION OF HATERS?Oh, fuck you Taffy!" says a blog post somewhere on the internet about a story I wrote on the extremely not-hot-button topic of linguistics. A comment on that blog post reads, "Fuck you Taffy! What a pretentious bitch." On the Wall Street Journal website—The Wall Street Journal*.—where the article orig-inally appeared, one online com-menter sums up his well-thought-out feedback on my story by say­ing, "I bet the chick who wrote this ar...