I am not an English/grammar snob, but people really need to stop using the idiom, "You can't have your cake and eat it too."

I suppose it means you can't keep possession of your cake and also eat it. But who wants to hold on to a cake? If people can't come up with a better way to illustrate mutually exclusivity, then they're probably the type of people who would want to have a cake, but not eat it.

What do they plan on doing with the cake?

Hearing that bothers me almost as much as Cindy gets bothered when people misuse the word "literally"

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I'm guessing the movie John Carter is bad because it's a Disney movie with a $250,000,000 budget, yet the only two positive reviews cited in the banner ad I just saw for the DVD were from "Ain't It Cool News" and "moviefanatic.com"

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Here's some of the better stuff I read this week:

This is a great article in Sports Illustrated following the careers of a few pitchers during the steroid era.

Good one about George Hotz -- the guy who first hacked into a PS3 -- and the struggle between the 'control of information and freedom of information.'

Short but cool story about an aging poet.

This is from 2008, and I didn't expect to read more than a couple of paragraphs, but it's actually an entertaining portrait of Carla Bruni and Nicolas Sarkozy and an unexpected peek into European culture.

Anything about Adderal frightens me on multiple levels, this is another example.

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I overheard a guy on the bus saying this on the phone:

"You've never met a man until you've watched him have sex."

Seemed a bit much.

I feel like watching a man get a lap-dance would be enough.

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I think restaurants are going overboard with the way they show off how "local" they are. When I look at a menu I want to read as little as possible. So when we went to Province a couple of weeks ago and had to read the name of every fucking farm their locally sourced ingredients came from, I found myself thinking, "I really don't care where these snap peas grew, I just want to know what's in the dish."

Just put one line at the top of the menu saying you use local ingredients, and I'll trust that you do.

And in case you're wondering whether they're a certified green building by the U.S. Green Building Council, they had this certificate hanging in the men's bathroom.

(The food at this place was really good, by the way.)