As always, and as I always forget, Rule $LOWNUM is: Make Metaphors Concrete. So, for example, when someone says they work “at the intersection of” this and that, a good first response would be something like: “Cool — so are you a dealer, a whore, or just one of those losers who hangs around a corner?” That’s the quiet part, so once you don’t actually say it out loud you inwardly chide yourself for retrograde attitudes toward sex workers. But we can’t be perfect on every front, and today I decided to advance the cause by helping to eradicate this f*cking “at the intersection of” plague.