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Romney’s not running — but his mouth is.
The fulminator Mitt Romney Mitt Romney is at it again, condemning the man who bested him in the 2012 presidential election. How nice it...
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Aug 16, 20143 min read
“This, that” or “This and that”?
Give me an and, the grammar cheerleader in me wants to shout. disjointed You’d think people had an allergy to and. These days, this...
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Aug 14, 20142 min read
“Including” trips up the best
Including from, including on, including in, including at … . Enough already. What I wanna know is: including what? Spare the word and...
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Aug 9, 20142 min read
The Helpful Hyphen
Writers who get too hyphen happy end up with cluttered copy, despite the apparently skewed vision of some who think they look so dashing....
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Aug 6, 20143 min read
When No News Is Bad News
President Barack Obama President Obama’s approval ratings are way down, significantly less than 50 percent in the polls. The reason,...
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Jul 31, 20142 min read
Enough! Leave “well” alone.
“In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God.” And God was and is everywhere. And so is the word...
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Jul 29, 20143 min read
Colonoscopy Condemned
“I’m not going to send you for a colonoscopy,” my primary-care doctor said. “We don’t do that anymore for people once they turn 70.” Man...
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Jul 25, 20142 min read
Salt of the Earth — or Sea
“Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? It is thenceforth good for nothing,...
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Jul 20, 20141 min read
All HELP has broken loose.
HELP! Spare me from redundant use of the word. Redundancy reigns It is ubiquitous in combination with another verb, when either that verb...
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Jul 16, 20143 min read
The Politics of Crisis
President Obama In 2008 and again in 2012, I voted for Barack Obama for president. His current low approval ratings are due mainly, I...
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Jul 12, 20144 min read
Civil rights sans civility
President Lyndon B. Johnson Ten days ago, the nation observed the 50th anniversary of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, brought to fruition by...
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Jul 8, 20142 min read
Cut the comma
Do you ever read a newspaper story, an advertisement, an essay or some other piece of literature and feel as though you’re being jerked...
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Jul 6, 20143 min read
Perverse, reverse Robin Hood
Americans become outraged when they hear about people at the lower end of the economic spectrum receiving government welfare assistance...
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Jul 2, 20143 min read
Green with greed
Ripened corn The Bible says the love of money is the root of all evil. Whether or not that’s true, it sure seems to have affected the...
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Jun 28, 20142 min read
Hark up!
Okay, listen up! Which is it: hark back, harken back, or hearken back? Hark, harken and hearken all mean the same thing: to listen. And...
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Jun 24, 20145 min read
Time for a change
Ancel Keys on a Time cover in 1950; a 1984 Time issue; the current Time issue Well folks, it’s finally happened. Time magazine, the...
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Jun 19, 20142 min read
The death of “died”
Do people die anymore? I mean, I know our life expectancy is on the rise, but surely the human species has not achieved immortality....
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Jun 16, 20143 min read
El tranquillity
Tranquil — naturally About two years ago, I began seeing a holistically oriented doctor. His practice was based on prevention and...
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Jun 14, 20143 min read
Women and cholesterol
Critical cholesterol study: no reporting Did you know about the large study in 2011 that showed women with high cholesterol had fewer...
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Jun 11, 20143 min read
Wheat goes awry
Wheat up!? Eat wheat. That’s the mantra of the medical establishment and conventional nutritionists. Wheat Leading alternative physicians...
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