The Last Word on Waterboarding?

This post by a Straight Dope member who waterboarded himself got my heart racing. Wow. [via]

El Corazon

This is a music video by a comedic musical group called Hard 'N Phirm (so called because the two comedians are named Chris Hardwick and Mike Phirman). Also check out their very funny bluegrass medley of Radiohead songs called "Rodeohead."

Seesaw Change?

I listen to a lot of podcasts. I don't spend much time in the car, so I get my radio the twenty-first-century way. I was listening to On Point, a radio show out of Boston, and a caller used the expression "seesaw change," as in, a major change, a shift in thinking.

I've never heard this before. Of course, the caller meant "sea change." That expression comes from Shakespeare, from the Tempest (Act I, scene ii):

Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes:
Nothing of him that doth fade
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.

But "seesaw change"? I can understand why someone would use that expression--a seesaw goes up and down, but please, do we have to? So I googled it, and it turns out there are a handful of people using the expression, but not that many. Can we all agree that "sea change" isn't a metaphor so dead we need to mistake our way into a new dead metaphor?