I've always been fond of "I broke it, I bought it." And no. It's writebetterdamnit. I wanted it to be writebetterdammit but dammit, there were other people using that tag so damn it, I conformed like a grownup. You can too. Shit. It appears that caio was the first person to use #writebetterdammit. However, I was the second, the third, the fourth and the fifth. In fact, of the first 20 posts using the tag, thirteen are mine... so in a way, it's kind of my equivalent of #vaguequestionsbypablo. You know what? If it weren't such an obnoxiously-misspelled tag, I doubt I would have given it any effort at all.According to Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell cited the rule in the summer of 2002 when warning President George W. Bush of the consequences of military action in Iraq:
'You are going to be the proud owner of 25 million people,' he told the president. 'You will own all their hopes, aspirations, and problems. You'll own it all.' Privately, Powell and Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage called this the Pottery Barn rule: You break it, you own it.