I could get a better education interviewing John Steinbeck than talking to an English professor about novels.

Dangling punch lines to forgotten stories remain in the language like the smile of the Cheshire cat.

Took me a while to get to the point today, but that is because I did not know what the point was when I started.

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.

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.

In lieu of those checks and balances central to our legal system, non-citizens face an executive that is now investigator, prosecutor, judge, jury and jailer or executioner. In an Orwellian twist, Bush's order calls this Soviet-style abomination 'a full and fair trial.'

Why use a modifier to set straight a not-quite-right noun when the right noun is available?