From the monthly archives:

February 2005

On Immigration

25 February 2005

Much has been said of late about immigrants, especially illegal ones. By “illegal immigrants”, by the way, we really mean people who come here on boats, not jets, people who sail here from the south, not the north, and people who speak a different language and who worship a different way from us.
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On What We’re Good At

17 February 2005

I was taught never to end a sentence with a preposition. To end anything, for that matter, with a preposition. Instead of saying “This is something I’m not going to put up with”, I was taught to say “This is something up with which I will not put”. Ends on a verb, [...]

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