Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.

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

It behooves us to avoid archaisms. Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do.

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.

Avoid overuse of 'quotation “marks.”'

I'm willing to zap conservatives when they do things that are not libertarian.

I want my questions answered by an alert and experienced politician, prepared to be grilled and quoted -- not my hand held by an old smoothie.