The tale of Meade and Ms. Althouse is a cross between the studiedness of a Victorian epistolary courtship —a modern-day Robert Browning googling his dear Elizabeth Barrett — and the wackiness of 21st-century life online.

In a number of posts about globohomo, it seemed like a generalized reference to contemporary economic life—there were references to globohomo megacorporations, globohomo materialism, and a longing for the upcoming post-globohomo, techno-feudalistic ages of revenge and strife. The term homo is usually used as derogatory shorthand for homosexuals, but in this context served two purposes: It also meant “homogenization,” the increasing sameness of everything worldwide.

His violin playing is painful.

Speaking French became a more accurate barometer of Québécoisness than did French ancestry or adherents to Catholicism’s tenets.[…]Two of Quebec’s languages laws, Bill 22 (1974) and Bill 101 (1977), have been the clearest with regard to defining Québécoisness on the basis of the French language.