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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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Jun 25, 20152 min read
Fitness Trainer Unfit to Write
I’m part-way through an email promotion for what the fitness trainer alleges to be the most amazing discovery about how to flatten your...
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Jun 19, 20154 min read
Media Full of Baloney on Saturated Fat
My old stomping grounds (for only two years), The Associated Press, is at it again. Whenever some government pronouncement about...
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Jun 14, 20153 min read
A word to the dumb
Be wary of the words you choose. They may mean something entirely different from what you thought they meant. Someone posted on Facebook...
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Jun 7, 20153 min read
Done deal: Florida Republicans reject $78 billion for Medicaid
Fellow Floridians, have you read the newspapers today? Tax cuts that you would have received aren’t going to happen. Florida Gov. Rick...
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May 31, 20153 min read
Florida Leaders Play Politics, Sacrifice People
It looks like the bad guys in the Florida Legislature and the governor are going to win the battle over whether to grant health care to...
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May 25, 20153 min read
Scott’s politicking fleeces Floridians
Florida Gov. Rick Scott and House Speaker Steve Crisafulli are hell-bent on plunging the state into a fiscal and environmental morass....
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May 17, 20154 min read
Chewing or Eschewing the Fat
You Docs, Oz & Roizen It never ceases to amaze me how certain voices in the medical community attain status as experts on all things...
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May 9, 20153 min read
Health and the media
Brian Williams Leading voices in the media are probably more dismayed by former NBC-TV news anchor Brian Williams’ misrepresentations of...
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May 2, 20153 min read
Extremism in the pursuit of pragmatism is no vice.
Barry Goldwater Notwithstanding Barry Goldwater’s mantra “Extremism in the cause of liberty is no vice,” it has dire consequences. Look...
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Apr 25, 20153 min read
The Scott scam
It wasn’t a prominently placed story in the Palm Beach Post – an inside page, three-column headline: “Scott, ACLU end fight over state...
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Apr 19, 20153 min read
Estate Tax Tiff
Once again, the Republicans in the House of Representatives are showing their true colors – and they ain’t pretty. They long have railed...
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Apr 11, 20153 min read
Doing the Can Con
The You Docs are making progress, but they’re not there yet. Their last column in my local newspaper had them starting out on a mostly...
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Apr 5, 20153 min read
Feeling so gay in a melancholy way
Sen. Mitch McConnell Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas told the U.S. Supreme Court in a brief...
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