HELL-IN-A-HANDBASKET

OK, I'm trying here. Really trying. About recent news--about the WRITING. I guess I'm venting (the word makes me uncomfortable--do you share my repugnance that the slit in the back of a suit-jacket, bottom, rear, is called a vent?).

In my favorite news medium, a writer thinks the past tense of "tear" is "teared." "The Bills teared the Patriots apart." Another writer uses the pronoun "which" for a person: "the teacher, which had taught the class..." OK? Anybody with me on this? Did something get in the water and addle everyone's brains, or what? THEN a national group chose as my state's Sports Writer of The Year the one guy, the ONE GUY who reliably messes up diction, syntax, logic and journalistic standards in every single column he writes.

Right. Well, if you know where Rhodes is, don't tell him all this--his head would explode like a ripe melon. #peterthompsonbooks #Bughouse Blues