A site to help make English grammar more understandable without dumbing down either its significance or its usage.
Denver will be losing one daily, the Rocky Mountain News, come Friday, according to owner’s group E.W. Scripps. Unable to find a buyer for the paper, Scripps is throwing in the towel on the 150-year-old publication. Meanwhile, Rupert Murdoch and his News Corp. are reportedly eyeing the purchase of the New York Times or even [...]
I got my start in journalism with the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, a Hearst Corporation newspaper noted mainly for its great sports reporting and its lackluster everything else. Hearst shut the money-losing operation down on Nov. 2, 1988 (I’ve still got a copy of the last paper), and now it’s threatening to close down the only [...]
And the fawning continues. No doubt historians are already writing future history books in which Barack Obama takes his rightful (their opinion) place beside George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt and FDR as the greatest presidents who ever lived. And the Nobel Committee is just waiting for Obama to invite Hamas to Camp David for [...]
I reported on a blog I maintain as part of my official duties about a new guidebook published by the International Longevity Center and Aging Services of California. Media Takes: On Aging offers prescriptions of what words and terms to use–and not to use–when referring in writing to our older population. As far as sensitivities go, the [...]
I got a kick out of reading the Los Angeles Times this morning and its "in-the-tank" piece about Obamulus, the stimulus plan that was just passed without any details being released except by Republicans. There in the first couple of paragraphs, the Times article sang the praises of the so-called stimulus bill, even using the [...]
Mark Cuban, outspoken multimillionaire (billionaire?) owner of the Dallas Marvericks, is offering to fund your start-up for 60 to 90 days provided it turns a profit in that time-frame. On his blog, he details the requirements. What I noticed in reading through the pitches made to him in the comments area are, first, that there are [...]
Those of you who’ve been to Asian restaurants, especially the smallish or fast-food variety but even some major sushi bars, will be given wooden chopsticks that have to be broken apart to use since they’re one piece at the top. What happens when you break them apart and the results are uneven, one top bigger than [...]
Like me three years ago, you may get laid off during a company layoff, which brings up this curious word formation. The verb is to lay off, the noun is layoff, and the adjective is a compound one, laid-off, as in a laid-off worker. Anyway, I guess I was the proverbial canary in the mineshaft [...]