Cast aside any column about two subjects. It means the pundit chickened out on the hard decision about what to write about that day.

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

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.

Of higher value than any one leader is the cause.

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

At a certain point, what people mean when they use a word becomes its meaning.

Never look for the story in the 'lede.' Reporters are required to put what's happened up top, but the practiced pundit places a nugget of news, even a startling insight, halfway down the column, directed at the politiscenti. When pressed for time, the savvy reader starts there.