OUCH! A Shot Across the Verbal Bows
We all have phrases and words that we hate, either because they can be ambiguous, plain incorrect or just sloppy repetition.
My number one bête-noire...
The PENN Building: A Room With A View
On a quiet Friday afternoon, I slipped into the PENN Building (650 Pennsylvania Ave. SE) with my shopping cart. I felt like an intruder,...
In Grateful Memory of Lincoln
At Dachau concentration camp, there is a sculpture of a mass of contorted corpses, impaled on barbed wire, with the words NEVER AGAIN below....