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more lowercase silliness. (And another excuse to mention Regina Spektor.)
10:40 AM Nov 20th
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@ "This past summer" is fine. I think even "this summer" works if you mean summer of this year.
8:43 AM Nov 20th
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"Last summer" is meaningless in November. Half will think it means the most recent summer; half will think it means summer of last year.
7:53 AM Nov 20th
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A rolling stone gathers no mas.
9:32 PM Nov 19th
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TV reporter to police spokesman: "Do you think you have all of the suspects in the murder?"
6:02 PM Nov 13th
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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
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@ So just say President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The tea-baggers won't detour to Campobello.
2:54 PM Nov 6th
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I cannot fathom why anyone would prefer to be forced to explicitly demand the check at a restaurant.
2:53 PM Nov 6th
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Reading about "then-President Franklin D. Roosevelt." Oh, right -- I keep forgetting he's not still in office.
7:45 AM Nov 6th
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On "police Officers" and "football Coaches" and other downsyUpsy moments from the tricky world of capitalization.
7:53 AM Nov 4th
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Cliche of the day: Something small is "no more than a rounding error."
6:46 AM Nov 3rd
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We have a theme song!
10:03 AM Nov 2nd
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"Badly decomposed." Talk about adding insult to injury -- I mean, wouldn't everybody be pretty good at that?
4:24 PM Nov 1st
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@ I've always understood "this needs done" and such to be a Pittsburgh thing.
8:08 AM Nov 1st
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In Andre Agassi's new book I find the odd retronym "snow sledding." As opposed to ...?
6:26 AM Nov 1st
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Unfortunate homograph: One who sews is a sewer. (Cue Laverne DeFazio: "A sewah?" "Yeah, a sewah!")
11:00 AM Oct 31st
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@ "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
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"Liability" is a long way down the road from "libel."
7:15 AM Oct 29th
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Walsh says headlines bad.
7:21 AM Oct 28th
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@ Same deal -- Wiggins's is NYT/WP/Chicago style (so I'd do that), and Wiggins' is AP style.
8:05 AM Oct 24th
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- Name Bill Walsh
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