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...leads, develops into a disconcerting death knell for the richer punctuation of yesteryear: prominent lefties like Noam Chomsky wax elegiac and crack wise about grammar, the implicit assumption being that people under seventy see the semi-colon and think, “what’s wrong with that comma...
...Side: I could already bench press four Webster's International dictionaries. But there were too many guys who were stronger, yet they didn't seem to be working out any harder. And they were racking up the bylines. I'm talking about economics writers who couldn't lift a comma. What were they doing? Hey, I am a reporter, right? A couple of phone calls later and I got it figured. They were juiced, in capital letters. I make the connection: the source is a beat-up wire service guy who spent too much time in South America...
...Europe Fears That Meth Foothold Is Expanding Interesting how footholds can expand. Into what? Stairs? 5) The Secret? It’s Not the Potatoes Along with the prominence of Times-y punctuation (see #1 for another Times question mark and #3 for the classic Times comma), the great thing about this one is how there’s no suggestion of what the secret is. The secret to ending climate change? Negotiating world peace? Editing copy at the most prestigious journalistic institution in the country and still producing headlines this silly? I still can’t explain...
...these puma or tiger paws ironed on, on the back there’s no punctuation...it’s a travesty to fashion. There’s no punctuation whatsoever; the last line [on the back] says “We ready are you,” no comma or anything.”Hopkins, meanwhile, was not afraid to wear the yellow disaster for the first full week of the year, on a bet from Breaux.Fashion sense will be more necessary when Hopkins finally leads his “band,” the “Washboard...
...that minuscule silhouette in the middle distance on a tiny elephant, the one dwarfed by the coiling surf of gray-brown cloud above his head? As the great storm explodes across the canvas, devouring the sickly yellow coin of the sun, the mighty general is just a comma in the larger scheme. This isn't merely history taking place in a landscape. It's landscape as the judgment of history...