His violin playing is painful.

In a number of posts about globohomo, it seemed like a generalized reference to contemporary economic life—there were references to globohomo megacorporations, globohomo materialism, and a longing for the upcoming post-globohomo, techno-feudalistic ages of revenge and strife. The term homo is usually used as derogatory shorthand for homosexuals, but in this context served two purposes: It also meant “homogenization,” the increasing sameness of everything worldwide.

Speaking French became a more accurate barometer of Québécoisness than did French ancestry or adherents to Catholicism’s tenets.[…]Two of Quebec’s languages laws, Bill 22 (1974) and Bill 101 (1977), have been the clearest with regard to defining Québécoisness on the basis of the French language.

The tale of Meade and Ms. Althouse is a cross between the studiedness of a Victorian epistolary courtship —a modern-day Robert Browning googling his dear Elizabeth Barrett — and the wackiness of 21st-century life online.