No longer can we measure compassion by how much we spend on poverty but how many people we help to lift out of poverty.

I think even in today's America, there's a sense that there's something vaguely sexy about cigarettes.

Prescriptive grammar has spread linguistic insecurity like a plague among English speakers for centuries, numbs us to the aesthetic richness of non-standard speech, and distracts us from attending to genuine issues of linguistic style in writing.

No longer can we measure compassion by how much we spend on poverty but how many people we help to lift out of poverty.

Texting is fingered speech. Now we can write the way we talk.

Every third person in the world is a drama queen. And crying 'victim,' especially when you're not really a victim in any real way, feels good. It feels good to cry victim if you're not one.

Frankly, Barack Obama is a standard issue leftist that you would expect of somebody with his particular experience, and he doesn't exactly hide it.