This couldn’t be a true Yellow Menace blog without some Arts and Entertainment, so I bring you, just over a week late, a record review. Enjoy!
This couldn’t be a true Yellow Menace blog without some Arts and Entertainment, so I bring you, just over a week late, a record review. Enjoy!
Good ol’ Al Gonzales, as President Bush has so lovingly called him, has tendered his resignation as the head of the U.S. Department of Justice. Yes, this comes in the wake of several scandals involving our civil rights. Yes, he ushered in a new era of non-testimony. Lots of leftists, like one of my good friends at Surtur Supreme, can taste the blood in the water.
Read more about the resignation
The American people have finally gotten a small glimpse of the ridiculousness of trying to operate a court when evidence is classified. Too bad the glimpse is so short — many of us may miss it by blinking.
Read more about those wacky wiretappers
I believe, and this is a paraphrase of someone else’s quotation, that there are three things that make a newspaper worthwhile: Accuracy, accuracy, and accuracy.
My inner copy editor can take no more. There are lots of common misconceptions among journalists, whether one’s medium is print, radio, TV or the Web. Most people do not know the difference between usages but, for those who do, news media could be constantly damaging their own reputations.
Please refrain from using the word “gridlock” as a term to describe garden variety vehicular congestion or traffic, during rush hour or otherwise. Gridlock describes a specific type of congestion where competing elements are preventing everyone’s progress, and was first used to describe a situation where vehicles blocking intersections “locked” a grid of streets by preventing throughput. Since most vehicular congestion is caused by elements including collisions, slow drivers and bottlenecks, the area surrounding Times Square can experience gridlock; CA-880 cannot.
I invite all your questions and suggestions for other common usage mistakes.
The Yellow Menace has already sent a letter to the editor at theyellowmenace1@gmail.com
A comment from a distressed reader challenged me to come up with what’s going right in this country. Read on to see just a few recent ones.
“If the market is ultimately driven by fear and greed, then we had fear in spades.”
Liz Ann Sonders, chief investment strategist, Charles Schwab & Co.
“We have an economy driven very much by access to credit.”
Liz Ann Sonders, chief investment strategist, Charles Schwab & Co.
“Consumers have been running on fumes, using their homes to finance extravagant lifestyles.”
Christopher Thornberg, economist, Beacon Economics.
Welcome to my new and, I hope, improved journal. Please feel free to contact me at theyellowmenace1@gmail.com.
