To Honor Lefty’s Mighty Victory, Here’s a Golf Course
July 27, 2013
Mark Twain called it a good walk spoiled, and Oscar Wilde defined it as a man fanning a ball with a stick. The activity, of
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Mark Twain called it a good walk spoiled, and Oscar Wilde defined it as a man fanning a ball with a stick. The activity, of
As you might have inferred from last week’s column, which explored the influence of comic strips and comic books on our American language, I
Next week, Comic-Con returns to San Diego, where, back in August 1970, it began life in the basement of the U.S. Grant Hotel. That
Being both a bird watcher and a word botcher, I take my grandchildren every summer to the San Diego Zoo and Safari Park, where we
The Second Continental Congress officially adopted our flag on June 14, 1777. The law read “that the flag of the 13 United States be 13
Dear Mr. Lederer: A U-T article headlined “Transgender woman sues BLM” included the following sentence: ‘Though she had drank two beers, she said she
A June 4, 2013, U-T article included this sentence: “Mayor Bob Filner said Monday he is moving forward with his plan to remove most cars
This coming Thursday afternoon, I will have the privilege of visiting Downtown Rotary Club 33, one of the largest Rotary Clubs west of the
The word alphabet is a joining of the first two letters of the Greek alphabet, alpha and beta. The Greeks inherited their letters from the