The perfect Christmas gift for a sportscaster, as all fans of sports clichés know, is a scoreless tie.

To be accused of 'channeling' is to be dismissed as a ventriloquist's live dummy, derogated at not having a mind of one's own.

We are all environmentalists now, but we are not all planetists. An environmentalist realizes that nature has its pleasures and deserves respect. A planetist puts the earth ahead of the earthlings.

When I need to know the meaning of a word, I look it up in a dictionary.

Do not be taken in by 'insiderisms.' Fledgling columnists, eager to impress readers with their grasp of journalistic jargon, are drawn to such arcane spellings as 'lede.' Where they lede, do not follow.

What a joy it is to see really professional media manipulation.

If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re-reading and editing.