"Kathy, I'm lost," I said

Who needs the Fair 'n' Balanced Network when you have the AP?

The news came as Sen. Charles Grassley said two of the emails, which traversed Clinton's insecure home email server, were deemed "Top Secret, Sensitive Compartmented Information," which is among the government's highest classifications.

Here's a tip. If you want a server with a robust sense of self-efficacy, rent a Sontaran. Otherwise, the word you want is probably "non-secure."

I regret to report that in a later writethru, it's "two emails that traversed Clinton's personal system." I like the restrictive clause better, but you have to admit it lacks that "Hello, darkness" vibe of the original, and I'm not entirely sure the AP isn't accusing her of swallowing the evidence.

'Get off my lawn' in Mandarin

Here's an interesting take from overseas on the occasional cultural tussle over what it means to be "in the dictionary" or "in the stylebook." Aside from the annual silliness over the AP's hyphenation decisions and the like (OMG teh lulz are official!!1!!), these fights sometimes represent small-scale securitizing moves: attempts to show that the bad guys are seizing control of "our" ability to define who "we" are by grabbing the official reins of language. In this case, though, it's not what the dictionary does but what the dictionary doesn't do:

A newly-published edition of one of China's most authoritative dictionaries has already been criticised by rights campaigners.

They complain that it has excluded a definition widely used by homosexuals in China for "gay".

Oh, my. What could that word be?
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