There is a campaign to make the word "Indian", referring to indigenous groups of the Americas, taboo.

The article claims that any use whatsoever of that term is "offensive", regardless of the intended meaning. I am skeptical of this, so I challenge those who think so to provide grounds for the claim.

The use of "Indian" to refer to people from the Americas started with an error, when Columbus believed he had reached India or what is now Indonesia. It also invites confusion, since there are more people in the US that were born in India than members of indigenous tribes. For clarity I usually write "indigenous" to identify the latter.

But those things do not add up to an offense or justify imposing yet another language taboo. There is no need to eradicate "Indian" from place names around the US.

The governor of New York said that the current blizzard is a "war with mother nature." I think that well describes the things humans have done to produce the global heating that made a storm this powerful happen.

She also called it "the blizzard of the century," which is an over-optimistic prediction about the storms of the next 77 years.

Another conjecture about Musk's goal in dealing with Twitter: that he aims to make it explicitly serve as a tool for right-wing extremism.

Sleeping-car doctors pun:

The doctors that worked on US sleeping car trains created a special branch of medicine, known as Pullmanary medicine.

US citizens: Kavanaugh's ugly holiday party proves we need a SCOTUS code of ethics; call on Congress to enact one.