diff --git a/posts/2006-10-18-psuedoscientism/psuedoscientism.md b/posts/2006-10-18-psuedoscientism/psuedoscientism.md
index 62b5760..26479bc 100644
--- a/posts/2006-10-18-psuedoscientism/psuedoscientism.md
+++ b/posts/2006-10-18-psuedoscientism/psuedoscientism.md
@@ -51,9 +51,9 @@ Health*](http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewWeb&articleId
 “blundered miserably” and set judges the task of using this “deeply
 confused philosophy of science” to act as gatekeepers in keeping
 scientific claims from juries. Actual scientists like
-[DefendingScience.org](http://defendingscience.org/) is working to undo
-this these mistakes, but you wouldn’t know it from the rhetoric — after
-all, *Daubert*’s defenders claim their just trying to uphold sound
+[DefendingScience.org](http://defendingscience.org/) are working to undo
+these mistakes, but you wouldn’t know it from the rhetoric — after
+all, *Daubert*’s defenders claim they're just trying to uphold sound
 scientific standards. (Chris Mooney’s book *The Republican War on
 Science*, among others, has a fascinating exposé of the junk
 science/sound science notions cooked up by the PR industry to trash
diff --git a/posts/2006-10-26-googradient/googradient.md b/posts/2006-10-26-googradient/googradient.md
index 43d1f07..0a7f8b9 100644
--- a/posts/2006-10-26-googradient/googradient.md
+++ b/posts/2006-10-26-googradient/googradient.md
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ resources and while there are some they can’t really give away to
 everyone (e.g. massages), there are others that should be easy (e.g.
 servers). Unfortunately for them, Google’s mindset is so obviously set
 that this will never happen. Even a company as woeful as Amazon is
-already kicking their but in this space, giving away storage space and
+already kicking their butt in this space, giving away storage space and
 computer power, with more in the works.
 
 But let’s imagine you had the resources to do this right, what would you