A Dependent Clause Is Like A Dependent

To Communicate, Put Your Words In Order; Give Them A Purpose; Use Them To Persuade, To Instruct, To Discover, To Seduce.

Never Look For The Story In The 'lede.' Reporters Are Required To Put What's Happened Up Top, But The Practiced Pundit Places A Nugget Of News, Even A Startling Insight, Halfway Down The Column, Directed At The Politiscenti. When Pressed For Time, The Savvy Reader Starts There.

The Tension Between The Governed And The Governing Is What Makes The World Go 'round. It's Not Love, It's That Tension, Because That Tension Exists In Love Affairs. The Whole Idea Of Control Is At The Heart Of Human Relationships. Control And Resistance To Control.

Nobody Stands Taller Than Those Willing To Stand Corrected.

A Reader Should Be Able To Identify A Column Without Its Byline Or Funny Little Picture On Top Purely By Look Or Feel, Or Its Turgidity Ratio.