Matty

Anarchist. Musician. Amateur religious scholar. Sexual. Bi. Alcoholic attempting recovery.

As we all know, to show possession in standard written English, you add an apostrophe (') and an S. Thor's hammer, cat's paw, men's restroom. But I've been very confused lately as to how this applies to words that already end in S. For example, I've seen both Hercules' labors and Hercules's labors. To save you the trouble of looking it up yourselves, here's the AP Style way to do it: SINGULAR COMMON NOUNS ENDING IN S: - Add ’s: the virus’s reach, the virus’s spread SINGULAR PROPER NAMES ENDING IN S: - Use only an apostrophe: Dickens' novels, Hercules' labors, Kansas' schools.

I got very annoyed with a family member over the weekend when they said they were opposed to any cutting of funding to the US military at all as they firmly believed in Reaganite "peace through strength" philosophy. I pointed out that we could cut the military budget in half right now and would still comfortably have the largest, most well-funded military in the world, and I don't understand what they're so afraid of anyway since most of the "threats" to the US are engendered by US imperialism. Then they told me that they'd learned a lot about politics from watching The West Wing!