Literally, A Web Log

The actual headline was “Suspect Sought In Robbery, Hand Mutilation. Woman Loses Finger In Struggle With Thief” but the weird news website Fark.com turned it into the following:
Elderly woman literally gives robber the finger
Technically she didn’t give him the finger, but I think this is quite appropriate.
Bravo, Fark.com.
Related:

literally give the bird

Gripmaster, Hand & Finger Exerciser

From the inside jacket of The War on Christmas, a book that seeks to expose the vast liberal conspiracy against the holiday observed on December 25th:
Literally any sign of Christmas in public can now lead to complaints, litigation, angry protests, threats, and bruised feelings.
How should this be categorized? Correct, Incorrect, or Unnecessary? Make your […]

Reader Jonathan Bourne submits the following:
Jennifer Lopez was a guest on Inside the Actors Studio on October 10, 2004. (That itself could be the topic of an entire blog.) During the interview, host James Lipton brought up Gigli and the landslide of bad press that it got, telling Lopez that around that time […]

Welcome Slate readers, to this “reasonably informed blog”. If you have an outrageously incorrect usage of “literally” be sure to submit it!
Update: the Slate story now has an MP3 audio version of the story.
Update: a different audio version of the story was on National Public Radio but I can’t recommend it because the part […]