'I'll open up a can of whoop ass on you!'

'I will stomp a mudhole in your ass and walk it dry!'

'Your brush with greatness is over!'

'Oh Hell Yeah!'

Such bickerings to recount, met often in these our writers, what more worth is it than to chronicle the wars of kites or crows flocking and fighting in the air?

Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.

It's our tendency to approach every problem as if it were a fight between two sides. We see it in headlines that are always using metaphors for war. It's a gen…