As a practicing wordsmith, I’ve been a subscriber and a fan of Anu Garg’s A.Word.A.Day (AWAD) for quite a few years; I greet each day’s e-mail eager for an opportunity to enrich my vocabulary and gain etymological insights. But I’m not nearly as big a fan as I was before Anu Garg started injecting his own politics into the service’s content.  I first noticed that, and wrote about it, back in 2012.  When I wrote that piece, Garg’s political slant was often subtle.  But now, like most of the press working overtime and going full Alinsky for Hillary, subtlety is out the window. Here’s the first part of the AWAD e-mail that arrived in my inbox on Monday: A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg I usually look for usage examples for words in A.Word.A.Day in newspaper articles. Nowadays, things are a little different -- you open any newspaper and top news stories are about a narcissistic con man running for the president of the...(Read Full Post)