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Article: FLASH FICTION: Spell Checker, Come Here [Video]

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I was determined to beat the living snot out of my spell checker. It couldn’t go on this way. “He” interrupted or interfered with every document I wrote, finding fault with nothing, or missing obvious spelling errors that a child copy editor would have caught and that an old spell checker would have pounced on. If I typed “prescient,” meaning foreknowledge, “he” changed it to present, as in a shoe full of coal under the Christmas tree, have a merry. I like to dabble in wordplay (all we true lefties do — in fact, you can often tell who’s undercover because the narcs are way too literal and make your forehead squinch, you thinking, Is “he” pulling my chain?) and I come up with the” occasional neologism, such as Peppershnippel, which made it into the Urban Dictionary, so you know it’s legit. The word refers to …

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Group marches against banks funding fossil fuels in Sacramento [Video]

The group Third Act Sacramento held a protest in Sacramento as part of a national day of action to pressure banks to stop funding fossil fuel projects. The march from 10th Street and Capitol Mall to the Wells Fargo Center in Sacramento was one of 85 events happening across the country. Third Act is made up of activists who are 60 years and older. They delivered thousands of bank customer pledges to withdraw funds.