“Suspect killed in officer-involved shooting” Police have killed another person in Las Vegas. Once again, news media headline writers prove that they will go through any possible contortion of the language, and some impossible ones as well, just to avoid saying “Police shot a man” in so many words.

“Suspect killed in officer-involved shooting” Police have killed another person in Las Vegas. Once again, news media headline writers prove that they will go through any possible contortion of the language, and some impossible ones as well, just to avoid saying “Police shot a man” in so many words.

Good. Destroy Flash utterly, completely and forever.

Good. Destroy Flash utterly, completely and forever.

“A historian ” or “an historian”?

Sometimes Rad Geek People’s Daily [radgeek.com] gets reader questions. Here is the latest from my feedback form: “You need your cop dad. Your cop dad keeps the lights on and the bad guys away from your doorstep. Do you really want anarchy? Do you really want to live in a world without law and order (the” . . . I — I never had a cop dad. *weeping, swelling after-school special music*

The X Files S01E20. Darkness Falls.