The Last Word

18/02/2022

Today I discuss the most divisive issue of our time, the one issue that pits one American against another and has left us as a house divided - the change in meaning of the word "literally."

Right now, I feel that I could figuratively claim that there are millions of people on the internet right now who are, rhetorically speaking, armed to the teeth, ready to literally kill the people who use the word literally to mean figuratively, and that no fewer than 5 people on my feed would liter...

09/01/2022

For my second blog post in two months, let's talk about the weather and the phrase Cloud 9 - a phrase of happiness and elation that strikes me as problematic emotionally and scientifically. Cloud 8 will surprise you! (That's what I'm supposed to put here to get the views, right?)

The idea or phrase “cloud 9” is thought to have come from the publication in 1896 of the first International Cloud Atlas – a book for meteorologists around the world to use as a guide for labeling the different clouds they are observing, allowing for the standardization of the names with shape...

13/11/2021

An experiment in the idea that all you need in order to start publicly writing is a lazily built blog and access to the Oxford English Dictionary (if even that), hello and welcome to my new project, Idiometry: exploring words from all angles. For the first entry, I could think of nothing better than an overthought exploration of the word with the third most dictionary entries, "go"

“Go” is, by the Oxford English Dictionary’s count, the word with the third highest number of definitions. “Set” settles in second place and “run” rushes ahead for first, aided by the tech boom of the recent decades which has left all of us who operate a little slower perhaps running on...

23/09/2020

Officer John Mattingly, shot in the leg while executing a warrant at Breonna Taylor's apartment, had more than a few words to say in anticipation of the court's judgement on himself and the other officers involved. Here is why some of those words terrify me.

Officer Jon Mattingly was one of the officers involved in the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor. He was one of two officers to open fire in her apartment and was shot. He recovered after a five hour surgery and, in the wake of the legal decision on the fate of himself and other officers involved in t...

16/06/2020

Some notes on headlines, conspiracy theories, and ignorance. Let's see where this clickbait goes.

Let's talk about headlines and conspiracy theories

31/05/2020

I don't know what else to do, so I'll keep writing

Today in the midst of racial protests in the ground, SpaceX took to the sky. Far and away in the first American astronaut mission in almost a decade, two lucky men got to escape the pandemic, the rioting, and at least the immediate effects of our president's tweets. And isn't it so appropriate, at a...

29/05/2020

A piece on America's current panic attack

Issues associated with asphyxiation can happen surprisingly quickly. Someone completely suffocated, with oxygen and blood flow constricted, may pass out in a matter of seconds depending on how tight the hold is. If not released a few seconds after falling unconscious, the lack of oxygen to the brain...

24/10/2017

https://thelastwordfsu.com/2017/10/24/americas-gay-time-warp/

Any Last Words?

18/10/2017

TLW staff meeting tonight in SLC Room 101A. New writers welcome!

17/10/2017

https://thelastwordfsu.com/2017/10/17/swimming-out-of-endangered/

Jaelynn Hart / Staff Writer It’s not very often that humanity gets to pat itself on the back for having a positive effect on the environment, but scientists are labeling sea turtles as a “global co…

11/10/2017

https://thelastwordfsu.com/2017/10/11/birminghams-historical-vote/

Kristin Roman / Editor During the last week of September, Birmingham, Alabama “became the first city” in the state “to approve LGBT protections.” The City Council passed the new “fully inclusive” n…

03/10/2017

https://thelastwordfsu.com/2017/10/03/shaken-to-the-core/

Jaelynn Hart / Staff Writer Three hundred people have died following the earthquake in Mexico. This disaster was the second one to hit the country only two weeks after the 8.1 magnitude earthquake …

02/10/2017

https://thelastwordfsu.com/2017/10/02/thanks-obamacare/

Jaelynn Hart / Staff Writer How many people would lose their lives if the Republican effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act succeeds? The results of this harrowing question are uncertain but stat…

28/09/2017

Alex Amenta / Editor It’s no secret that Puerto Rico is suffering from the aftermath of hurricane Maria; leaving millions of people without electricity and basic necessities, fuel is hard to find, …

27/09/2017

Staff meeting tonight in union room 311B. Come one and all, always looking for talented writers!

27/09/2017

Dillon Buckley/ Staff Writer DACA, or Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, is a program introduced in June of 2012 by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. This program allows the children …

25/09/2017

Written by Miles Cox Staff Writer With the buzz of the IPhone X announcement coming out in early September, our ongoing voyage to the realms of sci-fi seems to be picking up pace at a great rate. B…

19/09/2017

Check out this article by Kristin Roman about Su***de Prevention Advocacy in the Sunshine State!

https://thelastwordfsu.com/2017/09/18/floridas-su***de-prevention-advocacy/

By KRISTIN ROMAN / Editor September is National Su***de Prevention Month and the importance behind this is monumental; last year, 42,773 people died across the nation from su***de. Florida’s stati…