Grammar we can believe in

John McCain’s presidential campaign is running the above ad all over the Internet. While McCain thinks his opponent is a threat to common sense, it seems, John McCain is a bigger threat to something more important: the English language. So I’d like to pose a few questions to the senior Senator from Arizona.

1. Is it OK to split an infinitive?
2. Is it OK to capitalize randomly the first letters of some words but not others?

Elect a leader with good grammar.

The Facebook version of ‘You’re doing it wrong’

On my Facebook profile, my political views are listed as “liberal,” and Barack Obama is one of the politicians I support. Why, then, with their fancy advertising system promising to reach “the exact audience [advertisers] want with relevant targeted ads” am I getting the following ad on my profile?

I am younger than John McCain…

…and so are all of the things listed on this excellent new blog. You can submit your own on the site. The word game Scrabble is younger than John McCain.