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Punctuate to Communicate
These days, I find myself running into run-on sentences with greater frequency. Seems as though people are too impatient, or lazy, or...
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Sep 27, 20152 min read
Killer of a Deal. FREE book!
MURDER IN PALM BEACH, by me, is about to go FREE! That is, the book will be offered free for one full day beginning at midnight tonight....
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Sep 25, 20152 min read
Book it. It’s FREE!
Friends and neighbors and lovers of literature (I use the term loosely), sometimes in the world of books there is a free lunch. If that’s...
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Sep 24, 20152 min read
Car-lyar Fiorina the Fibber
Mona Charen Paul Krugman and Mona Charen, two syndicated columnists. A recent column by each reminds me of a song: “What a difference a...
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Sep 18, 20154 min read
Bernie and Rachel Trumped
Donald Trump I am going to do something I would never have dreamed of doing, to wit, defend Donald Trump and two other Republican...
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Sep 13, 20154 min read
Be Wary of Vaccines
The You Docs are at it again, touting the wonders of conventional medicine that fly in the face of facts. Real facts, not the kind...
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Sep 9, 20152 min read
Green Is Good (take that, Gordon Gekko)
General Mills headquarters near Minneapolis The newspaper headline read: GENERAL MILLS TACKLES GAS EMISSIONS. Hmmm, I thought, the...
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Sep 1, 20153 min read
A Warm Welcome to Alaska
If this keeps up, it won’t be too long before billboards, websites and the media will be running ads that read something like, “Come to...
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Aug 30, 20152 min read
Cereal killers
The movement is growing. We speak of the trend toward healthier eating. The latest evidence is General Mills’ decision to remove all...
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Aug 24, 20153 min read
Florida Government in the Dark
Florida Gov. Rick Scott Before Republican Rick Scott ran for governor of Florida the first time, in 2010, the voters knew he was a crook:...
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Aug 17, 20153 min read
A Word to the Wise
Writing isn’t the only way to abuse the English language. The spoken word gets pummeled aplenty these days, often by persons who should...
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Aug 13, 20153 min read
Who guards the Fox house?
Fox News’ Megyn Kelly It was quite a matchup in the Republican presidential debate last week, Donald Trump versus Fox News’ Megyn Kelly....
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Aug 8, 20154 min read
Bureau-crazy
It was enough to turn a liberal into a conservative. I just had an experience with government bureaucracy that made me wonder if the...
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Aug 2, 20152 min read
The Confounded Compound Sentence
Former Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley In the opinion of this humble scribe, the most common writing error involves the compound sentence....
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Jul 28, 20154 min read
Cop Blanche
A few days ago, the sheriff of Palm Beach County in southeast Florida expressed defiance over criticism arising from a joint media...
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Jul 22, 20154 min read
The Bloviator — er, the Trump-eter in Chief
Donald Trump At an appearance by Donald Trump this week, all of the veterans present supported him, MSNBC reported, showing one man...
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Jul 16, 20153 min read
Singularly Simple
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders This week, two persons on either end of the political spectrum called for a radical change in the nation’s...
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Jul 12, 20154 min read
Technological Overload: Tell Avivah
New York Stock Exchange United Airlines plane A single day last week told the story of what’s become of life on planet Earth. On...
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Jul 5, 20153 min read
Godly Warming
Republican Catholics are in a quandary. Do they adhere to their political ideology on climate change, or do they follow their spiritual...
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Jul 1, 20153 min read
However: Alpha or Omega?
When I was in my upper 30s, working with the Palm Beach Post, I came across a piece written by the copy chief that had the...
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