Lesson 1: As you know, “Moms for Liberty” (or as they are also known “Moms for the Promotion of Fascism”) has claimed that teachers are indoctrinating children. My friend Bill sent along this note: If teachers could indoctrinate students, more people would use apostrophes correctly.
Lesson 2: I was taught that when you use a series in a sentence, you place a comma before the “and.” It is called the Oxford comma. Students are now taught to drop this comma. In a column today, Professor Rex Parker gave the best example of the reason we should use the Oxford comma. It was from an article about Merle Haggard which contained this sentence: “Among those interviewed were his two ex-wives, Kris Kristofferson and Robert Duvall.” I think it is clear that that sentence would be improved with a comma before the word and.
If you were expecting me to comment on the indictment of Trump, I have just three words on that: Lock him up.
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