Anyone working in the media can tell you that there seems to be an always-ready-to-explode segment of the populace for whom offense is a fate worse than anything imaginable. You'd think offense is one of the most calamitous things that could happen to a human being; right up there with the loss of a limb, or just missing a parking space.

The information superhighway? That sounds like a place that's long and boring and kills 50,000 people a year.

I think I'd be pretty easy to write for.

The sudden death at 51 of James Gandolfini is intolerable.

There are online forms you can fill out to send to your lawmakers, demanding that nothing - nothing at all or in any way - be done about any guns whatever, anywhere.

Teaching is an art and a profession requiring years of training.

Sloppy language leads to sloppy thought, and sloppy thought to sloppy legislation.