By elevating your reading, you will improve your writing or at least tickle your thinking.

Avoid overuse of 'quotation “marks.”'

I welcome new words, or old words used in new ways, provided the result is more precision, added color or greater expressiveness.

If you want to "get in touch with your feelings," fine, talk to yourself. We all do. But if you want to communicate with another thinking human being, get in touch with your thoughts. Put them in order, give them a purpose, use them to persuade, to instruct, to discover, to seduce. The secret way to do this is to write it down, and then cut out the confusing parts.

I'm a right-wing pundit and have been for many years.

Adjective salad is delicious, with each element contributing its individual and unique flavor; but a puree of adjective soup tastes yecchy.

When your government, employer, landlord, merchant, banker and local sports team gang up to picture, digitize and permanently record your every activity, you are placed under unprecedented control.