TheSlot
- Even in the good old days, of course, games ended right at deadline. Sloppily presented news will always trump no news. 4:04 AM Nov 7th from TweetDeck
- @ So just say President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The tea-baggers won't detour to Campobello.2:54 PM Nov 6th from TweetDeck in reply to Photonics_Lynn
- I cannot fathom why anyone would prefer to be forced to explicitly demand the check at a restaurant. 2:53 PM Nov 6th from TweetDeck
- Reading about "then-President Franklin D. Roosevelt." Oh, right -- I keep forgetting he's not still in office.7:45 AM Nov 6th from web
- On "police Officers" and "football Coaches" and other downsyUpsy moments from the tricky world of capitalization. 7:53 AM Nov 4th from TweetDeck
- Cliche of the day: Something small is "no more than a rounding error."6:46 AM Nov 3rd from web
- We have a theme song! 10:03 AM Nov 2nd from web
- "Badly decomposed." Talk about adding insult to injury -- I mean, wouldn't everybody be pretty good at that?4:24 PM Nov 1st from web
- @ I've always understood "this needs done" and such to be a Pittsburgh thing.8:08 AM Nov 1st from TweetDeck in reply to tom_pearson
- In Andre Agassi's new book I find the odd retronym "snow sledding." As opposed to ...?6:26 AM Nov 1st from web
- Unfortunate homograph: One who sews is a sewer. (Cue Laverne DeFazio: "A sewah?" "Yeah, a sewah!")11:00 AM Oct 31st from web
- @ "Artisanal" is overused, but I don't have a particular aversion. Yet. Now, the way "Top Chef" contestants use "a protein" ...8:07 PM Oct 29th from web
- "Liability" is a long way down the road from "libel." 7:15 AM Oct 29th from web
- Walsh says headlines bad. 7:21 AM Oct 28th from web
- @ Same deal -- Wiggins's is NYT/WP/Chicago style (so I'd do that), and Wiggins' is AP style.8:05 AM Oct 24th from web in reply to paulwiggins
- GHEE WIZ, on a profile of an Indian-food phenom.10:57 AM Oct 23rd from web
- Reading about "President Obama Thursday." Wasn't he in Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood of Make-Believe?3:41 PM Oct 22nd from web
- AP style: "Gibbs' comments." Washington Post, New York Times and Chicago style: "Gibbs's comments." (Or "Mr. Gibbs's" for NYT ...)8:05 AM Oct 22nd from web
- Dictionary dissent of the day: Webster's New World lists "cabdriver." As in a cabdriver wearing a sweat shirt in his town house.10:17 AM Oct 21st from web
- Today's rankings: 1. Regina. 2. Arlen. 3. Phil.6:15 AM Oct 21st from TwitterBerry
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- Name Bill Walsh
- Location Washington, D.C.
- Web http://www.theslo...
- Bio I work at the Washington Post and occasionally lapse into a comma.
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