The rant the much-maligned Em dash deserved: «I stand before you today with violence in my heart. I do not come in peace. […] In this fallen world of ours, there exist certain ideas that must be annihilated before goodness can flourish. I am here to rain holy fire upon one of those ideas, and I am here to do so in the name of a punctuation mark.»

From Weekly Filet #579, in July 2026.

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