Last night, for only the second time in the history of the American show, someone won a million dollars on Deal or No Deal. It was a bright spot for the show, but not so much for the grammatically-challenged host, Howie Mandel.

Toward the end of the show, Mandel explained to contestant Tomorrow Rodriguez that, despite [...]

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When we wasn’t trying to keep up with John McCain’s references to Joe the Plumber, Barack Obama made a number of linguistic errors tonight.
“If you make less than a quarter million dollars a year,” he said, your taxes will not be increased. Later he noted that 98 percent of small businesses “make less than $250,000.”
When [...]

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Doggone it, Joe! You’ve been givin’ speeches since I was in second grade; I thought you had a better grasp of language!
Just as the Delaware senator made rhetorical blunders in his Springfield speech and his Denver acceptance speech, he made a heckuva lot of errors in last night’s debate.
Biden had a hard time with the [...]

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Michelle Obama dubbed the week Women’s Week of Action, making a concerted appeal to female voters, some of whom may be taken with “Palin Power.”
Michelle began a dash-heavy memo to supporters with the observation: “It’s hard to believe there are less than 50 days before Election Day.”
It’s also hard to believe none [...]

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