Long words, fat talk - they may tell us something about ourselves. Has the passion for fat in the language increased as self-confidence has waned?

Americans don't like plain talk anymore. Nowadays they like fat talk. Show them a lean, plain word that cuts to the bone and watch them lard it with thick grea…

Can't-do guys do all right in Washington, perhaps because lobbying is the one thing that can't-do guys almost always can do, and magnificently. Detroit may not…

No less a philosopher than Chief Justice Burger was outraged by Ellsberg's publication of classified documents. They belonged to the Government, Burger reasone…

Proper words in proper places, make the true definition of a style.

For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, an…

To a certain sort of half-wit, obscenities are testosterone turned into the spoken word.