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They Blinded Me With Scito: A Scientology Tell-All Round-Up
They Blinded Me With Scito: A Scientology Tell-All Round-Up
By Sarah Bennett
March 05, 2013

There are a few regular internet wormholes I can fall into for hours, and while some are more common, like searching for sloths on youtube.com or just "boots" on zappos.com (that's my usual cure for jetlag), I can also lose hours to reading anti-Scientology websites and books.

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Banished Words of the Future: A Black Balloon "Curation"
Banished Words of the Future: A Black Balloon "Curation"
By Mikael Awake
January 16, 2012

Trickeration. Blowback. Ginormous. Lest you think I'm coming up with Huffington Post headline ideas, these are just three of the dozen words added to this year's list of banished vocabulary. Diction has been a hot topic here of late: last week, James R. offered his thoughts on banishing, or at least curbing, our use of the word "literally." 

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