The language of Abraham Lincoln
I got to see Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln" recently, and it was a dazzling film. Daniel Day-Lewis, of course, was incredible, but he had a great script to work with. Screenwriter…
I got to see Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln" recently, and it was a dazzling film. Daniel Day-Lewis, of course, was incredible, but he had a great script to work with. Screenwriter…
In the waning days of this presidential election season, the two major campaigns are doing everything they can to squeeze out every last vote. It's an exciting time in American…
I had a boss once who hated acronyms and abbreviations so much that he even discouraged us from using FBI. "Alphabet soup," he called it. I get it. It can…
At some point earlier this year, I buckled up the tool belt and went to work on this old house in Colorado to prepare it for selling. Not too long…
I'm usually not one to get too twisted up over language errors and typos and such. English is hard, and mistakes will happen. I might have even made some myself…
The president of the United States visited Reddit the other day and chatted up the Internets. Of course during the talk, there just had to be some doofuses chime in…
So apparently there's some concern about Obama's new slogan: “Forward.” (Specifically, the period at the end there is vexing.) “Even for some in the president's orbit, the added punctuation slams…