When things start going badly for the NeoCons,

[No Mandate Here.]

George Will writes about weighty issues like 'Commas' Pehaps he heard that Safire wants to retire?

<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43938-2004May20.html>

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Behold the magical comma. It can turn an unjust aspersion against an entire species ("No dogs please") into a reasonable request ("No dogs, please"), or it can turn a lilting lyric into a banal inquiry ("What is this thing called, love?"). The Christmas carol actually is "God rest ye merry, gentlemen," not "God rest ye, merry gentlemen.

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Combined with a colon, a comma can fuel sexual warfare: "A woman without her man is nothing" becomes "A woman: without her, man is nothing." But a colon in place of a comma can subtly emit a certain bark.

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1. does he need a 'colonoscopy'

and how does that differ from a commascopy?

[struggle4progress]

2. I find it somewhat less nauseating than Will's usual drivel.

He's pointing out what everybody learns in (say) tenth grade English class, so it's a silly bore, but at least he's not playing sophomoric word games with matters of any import.