Commentary

Checking your stats

If you are a sports fan, you might just have a lot of stats in your head. Football fans (I’ll start with that because it’s playoff time for both college and professional football) know everything from won-lost records to quarterback ratings. And countless other stats, especially on their favorite teams

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white and black happy birthday card

What will you do in 2025? Here’s what we will do.

According to the calendar — and they have a tendency to be accurate — this will be our final feature article for 2024. The common theme for this time of year is “New Year’s Resolutions,” and perhaps you’ve already started thinking about yours. Almost every list I see is comprised

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God rest you merry, Gentlemen.

Everyone who reads English, and especially everyone who writes English, knows the importance of a properly placed comma. Several years ago I picked up a book on the topic of punctuation, very cleverly titled Eats, Shoots & Leaves. The cover shows two panda bears. One of them is on a

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