Awful Euphemism Watch
February 15th, 2006




Who knew that Newsweek’s Periscope section had an obituary sidebar called “Transition”? The two personages transitioning out of a living state mentioned in last week’s issue were Wendy Wasserstein and Betty Friedan.

I don’t mean to be flip about the end of life, or what some crass bastards refer to as death. So let me just offer my condolences to the families of the transitioned.



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