Loving your language means a command of its vocabulary beyond the level of the everyday.

I don't think that we really know a whole lot about Barack Obama at all that you would really call distinctive.

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.

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

A person you excuse from any genuine challenge is a person you do not truly respect.

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.

English, however, is kinky. It has a predilection for dressing up like Welsh on lonely nights.