Unfolding events in Iraq have prompted some observers to make analogies to the American experience in the Vietnam War. The United States has, they argue, stumbled into another overseas "quagmire" from which there is no easy or cheap

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_two_cents_(idiom) " My two cents " and its longer version " put my two cents in " is an American idiomatic expression, taken from the original British idiom expression: to put in " my two

In English usage, at least, we have the option to insert a comma before the 'and' in a list without the 'etc.'. As in 'apples, pears, and plums'. This is called the "Oxford comma". Usually it is only inserted to

American Heritage has this to say about this ongoing triviality: Writers who use hopefully as a sentence adverb, as in Hopefully the measures will be adopted, should be aware that the usage is unacceptable to many critics, including a

I've been reading a lot of spec scripts recently, and this is the blandest I have ever come across. Here's Page 1: INT. HOUSE - LATE AFTERNOON WALTER VALE, sixty-two, is standing by the window of his modestly furnished Colonial house. He

You've got to be *** kidding me!  This is beyond asinine. http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/05/12/us.genes.lawsuit/ ACLU sues over patents on breast cancer genes * Story Highlights * ACLU sues on behalf of universities, genetic specialists and

You've got to be *** kidding me!  This is beyond asinine. http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/05/12/us.genes.lawsuit/ ACLU sues over patents on breast cancer genes * Story Highlights * ACLU sues on behalf of universities, genetic specialists and

You've got to be *** kidding me! This is beyond asinine. http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/05/12/us.genes.lawsuit/ ACLU sues over patents on breast cancer genes * Story Highlights * ACLU sues on behalf of universities, genetic specialists and

" The Thin Veneer of Civilization The big lesson of Katrina is not about the incompetence of the Bush administration, the scandalous neglect of poor black people in the United States or our unpreparedness for major natural disasters,

Just to keep this group alive... Yet again I hear on the wireless that a victim of violence is - ... To my ear, these are almost antonyms, a view borne out I think by dictionaries. How do you understand it? I have had similar thoughts about that