[1rudeboy]

This is as good a thread to ask as any other: I've noticed an epidemic of people failing to place a space between the last letter of a word and the beginning of a parenthetical comment. Is this usage in one of the new style books?

[dblup]

Yes.

The stylebook is from the “For Dummies” series and is called “Dont Nevre Lern to Reed er Rite.”