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.

A dependent clause is like a dependent child: incapable of standing on its own but able to cause a lot of trouble.

A reader should be able to identify a column without its byline or funny little picture on top purely by look or feel, or its turgidity ratio.

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

You don't want lopsided government. You don't want one side running roughshod over the other.

If America cannot win a war in a week, it begins negotiating with itself.

No one flower can ever symbolize this nation. America is a bouquet.