The Tim Goeglein scandal came and went in a single day. Such is the digital age, several characteristics of which this story illuminates:
1. The blazing speed. It was 7:30 a.m. Friday when former News-Sentinel columnist Nancy Nall posted on her blog:
My, my, my. Tim Goeglein, director of the White House office of public liaison, is a plagiarist.
(Twenty times. That number is important later on, so remember it.)
Clean up you're writing; Tuesday will be National Grammar Day, and I is watching you:
I confess: I'm one of those people who cares about the difference between a gerund and a participle, between a restrictive and non-restrictive relative clause. This puts me in a tiny minority of deranged grammatical eccentrics -- people you should generally try to avoid.
But I have converted from my former life as a grammar prosecutor.
Sometimes I find myself talking to my cats. Guess I'd better watch what I say:
Secret recordings of a pensioner talking to his cats, which police claim include a confession he hit his partner, have been played to a jury.
David Henton, 72, of Neath, denies murdering his long-term partner, Joyce Sutton, 65, from Skewen, in her bed.
Granted, the quality of the product and the service may have deteriorated at Starbucks. It can happen to any company. But their solution is to promise perfection?
A day after shutting down most of its U.S. shops for three hours to retrain baristas on espresso basics, Starbucks is welcoming customers back Wednesday with a new promise posted in stores: "Your drink should be perfect, every time. If not, let us know and we'll make it right."
Of all that humankind has created, books above all are about who we really are: I am what I read. People who insist on treating books as objects to prove to others who they want them to think they are can just stay out of my life:
But my head is already full!
Are you a locavore who decries the tapafication of restaurants or a latte liberal on the fence about Billary? No matter, the explosion of new words in the English language is enough to make you want to bury your head under a blankie or run off to Godzone.
This is understandable but still a shame :
Indianapolis-based Steak 'n Shake, a favorite of the late-night crowd and an Indiana institution, faces a shaky financial future.
Some stockholders hope to push the struggling restaurant chain in a new direction, but experts say that might not be enough to save it, 6News' Ray Cortopassi reported.
How depressing. This is the headline on a story in the Michigan City News-Dispatch, a newspaper I worked at for eight years: "Former fugative gets jail time." We knew how to spell better than that when I was there, honest we did. And the story reveals that the man was discovered and hauled in after12 years on the run. I guess technically he was a"former" fugitive at the time of his sentencing, but that still seems redundant to me. Oh, well.
Well, make that one miss and one hit for McCain today. His "no new taxes" pledge is ill-advised, but I like his stand on farm subsidies. Campaigning in Wisconsin, both Clinton and Obama said they not only would continue a popula dairy-subsidy but could even seen expanding the payments. Not McCain:
