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Rabid GOP Attacks ACA Again
The fanatical anti-Obama faction of the GOP – which is almost the entire Republican Party – is at it again. They voted once more, in the...
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Feb 1, 20152 min read
Sp-l-Check
It’s l-ementary. Pairing or paring the l In certain words, the double l is required. In others, depending on whether the language is...
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Jan 25, 20152 min read
It Hurts So Good!
Florida’s Republican Legislature and governor, Rick Scott, are in a pickle. The people whose boneheaded obeisance to an idiotic ideology...
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Jan 18, 20152 min read
Untangling That Dangling Modifier
Like a yokel at a party of snobs, the dangling modifier looks so uncomfortable. He’s out of place and doesn’t know how to get the heck...
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Jan 10, 20152 min read
Stonewalling the Keystone
The White House indicated that President Obama will veto the Keystone XL Pipeline bill passed last week by the House and due for a vote...
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Jan 4, 20153 min read
Fat Foe Redux
Dr. Mehmet Oz The You Docs are at it again. After results of a huge meta-analysis were published in March, Drs. Mehmet Oz and Michael...
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Dec 28, 20142 min read
Getting to the Bottom of Between
It’s become a full-fledged epidemic. Perhaps the best evidence of the deterioration of English language usage in America is the misuse of...
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Dec 20, 20142 min read
Sneak Preview
Ex-Senator Barney Frank We just got a preview of what’s going to happen to the country under the new Congress, with both the House and...
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Nov 28, 20143 min read
The comma: common but crucial
Preventive Gerontologist, Dr. Arnold Bretsky, recommends this … That’s the beginning of a sentence from a newspaper advertorial urging...
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Nov 14, 20143 min read
Diabetes Association: Telling it like it isn’t
How are Americans supposed to know what food is healthy if the major medical organizations propagate wrong information? So far, so good...
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Nov 9, 20143 min read
Playing it safe
The Democratic Party lost the 2014 midterm elections last week to the Republicans, and the Miami Dolphins lost its ninth game of the...
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Nov 3, 20143 min read
Baby, it’s cold inside!
Cruise ship Outside my stateroom window, the big, heavy tub is churning the Caribbean into a frothy white that is absorbed by the inky...
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Oct 18, 20143 min read
Getting all dangled up
Call them murdered modifiers, muddied modifiers, massacred modifiers – or, perhaps most accurate, misunderstood modifiers. They all...
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Sep 26, 20143 min read
Vote for yourself, not the rich.
Chris Matthews Less than six weeks before the general election (Nov. 4), American voters would do well to consider a few facts...
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Sep 24, 20143 min read
Relax, and skip the Exlax.
Human intestines Nineteen years ago, I had my first colonoscopy. My then-wife and I had returned from a trip to California, during which...
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Sep 20, 20142 min read
Vitamin B12: Food for Thought
A. Eggs, meat, dairy and fish. Meat up It follows that, unless vegans and strict vegetarians take a B12 supplement, they are getting...
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Sep 16, 20141 min read
Say it again, Sam
What gives? There is another redundancy that pops up often in the print and broadcast media, in ads, on bloggers’ sites, and in...
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Sep 5, 20144 min read
CVS, Cigarettes and Saturated Fat
Let’s see … I need some cashews and pistachios. Where shall I go get them at a good price, Walgreen’s or CVS? Walgreens store Used to be,...
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Sep 1, 20143 min read
The Bare Minimum
American workers Since 1894, Labor Day has been officially celebrated as a day to honor workers. It’s a time to reflect on the...
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Aug 27, 20144 min read
Daunted Democrats
President Obama With the primaries over here in Florida, the midterm elections loom a little more than two months away. A poll shows...
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