Word Watch – October 2010
Cliches: you can’t live with ’em, and you can’t live without ’em. That’s a cliche, too. But some cliches have earned their right to exist. …
Cliches: you can’t live with ’em, and you can’t live without ’em. That’s a cliche, too. But some cliches have earned their right to exist. …
On July 29, a commentator on Fox News responded to a question from Juan Williams about the amazing amount of money that the Clintons devoted …
This is chapter 1,559,363 in the long-running serial, “Why Don’t the Media Know What All the Rest of Us Do?” On July 17, there was …
“Raul Castro has made halting efforts to open the economy, while exhorting Cubans to work harder and stop depending on the state for everything” (AP, …
The ball came bouncing down the sidewalk, and a yell came after it. “Hey, Mr. Brattle! How ’bout a game?” “Yeah, Mr. Brattle! Before you …
Two months ago, Leland Yeager commented in this place about the virtues of prescriptivism — the act of prescribing grammar and diction, not just of …
I’m still tickled by Eric Holder’s admission that he hadn’t read Arizona’s anti-illegal- immigrant law before he furiously denounced it. Since the law is only …
Hearing the president and his friends rant against British Petroleum because of the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico reminds me of the justifiably …
On May 23, I rejoiced to find that the Associated Press actually recognized that there might be some slight problem with the welfare state. It …
“Well, mobs get pretty ugly sometimes, you know.” That’s what Mr. Potter, the villain in “It’s a Wonderful Life,” says to Jimmy Stewart when yet …