Charlie Rose on asking an expert on China to describe the host of the Olympic Games and the world’s third largest economy:
“I know you can’t speak with a broad brush…”
That is correct, Charlie. In fact, no one can speak with a “broad brush” which is used for painting, not speaking. The correct verb even for [...]

Is Senator John McCain angry? We respond “Yes,” and will use his semantics (semantics: n. study of the meaning and use of words and phrases) to prove the point. In the penultimate debate
(penultimate: adj. next to last, second to last) McCain referred to his opponent, Senator Barak Obama as “that one.” No title, no proper [...]

Billy MacDonald, a genial local television sportscaster in Los
Angeles, who attended both USC and UCLA, recently interviewed University of Southern California
football line coach Pat Ruel. The focus of MacDonald’s questioning
hinged on Ruel’s charges playing at high levels of efficiency: How is
it they perform so well, asked MacDonald, also known as Billy Mac.
“Our guys push [...]