It’s become a full-fledged epidemic. Perhaps the best evidence of the deterioration of English language usage in America is the misuse of the phrase describing the interval spanning two points. Bothered and Bewildered by Between The only wording that makes sense is between one point and another point. For example: The distance between New York […]
Dr. Mehmet Oz The You Docs are at it again. After results of a huge meta-analysis were published in March, Drs. Mehmet Oz and Michael Roizen acknowledged in their column that new information showed saturated fat may not be so bad, after all. Their pause didn’t last long. Soon afterward, they resumed their condemnation of this […]
The White House indicated that President Obama will veto the Keystone XL Pipeline bill passed last week by the House and due for a vote in the Senate. Observers say an override is possible. Meanwhile, a new technological development could make oil obsolete. Pipeline progresses Canadian company TransCanada has been waiting since 2008 for […]
Like a yokel at a party of snobs, the dangling modifier looks so uncomfortable. He’s out of place and doesn’t know how to get the heck out of there. Most of us have been in such a situation. I know I have, realizing only too late that I didn’t belong there. Let’s help this misfit […]
Florida Gov. Rick Scott Florida’s Republican Legislature and governor, Rick Scott, are in a pickle. The people whose boneheaded obeisance to an idiotic ideology cost the state tens of billions in federal health-care dollars now are faced with paying the piper. Correction: Those office holders, most of them returned to their posts by a clueless […]
It’s l-ementary. Pairing or paring the l In certain words, the double l is required. In others, depending on whether the language is British English or American English, a single l suffices. For example, cancelled is the British form, and it’s canceled in America. However, I ask for a cancellation of my reservation whether in […]
Sen. Richard Burr, North Carolina The fanatical anti-Obama faction of the GOP – which is almost the entire Republican Party – is at it again. They voted once more, in the House, to repeal the Affordable Care Act – the whole thing, not parts of it that they’ve voted on dozens of times since 2011. […]
Well, the government diet gurus have switched positions again. Now they don’t think cholesterol is bad for you. Not long ago, so-called experts were recommending even more people take statin drugs. You know – those delightful pills that make a large number of people who take them experience serious muscle deterioration, or amnesia, or other […]
Child with measles The media, for the most part, scorn the folks who resist vaccinations for diseases or are disinclined to have their children vaccinated. Measly medicine It probably is a mistake to refuse vaccinations for measles, though I’m not sure. The media, of which I once was a member, and President Obama (whom I hold in […]
The media, for the most part, scorn the folks who resist vaccinations for diseases or are disinclined to have their children vaccinated. It may be a mistake to refuse vaccinations for measles, though I’m not sure. The media, of which I once was a member, and President Obama (whom I hold in high regard) tell […]