21-02-2014, 19:34
You are gravely mistaken if you think the late Mr. Saffire was only about politics--he was a great writer on the English language, writing the "On Language" column for the NYTimes for 30+ years (the better columns being collected into books) as well as stand-alone books on our glorious language. I still miss it and him (yeah, I'm a Lefty--so what? Unlike the Fox News rabble, he was a worthy challenge.) Here's an obit explaining him further: http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/...index.html