Note that semicolon up there in the title. You see how beautifully I deployed that? I learned punctuation as a copy editor, a job that I took at Spin 14 years ago. There, I first changed like to such as and made bands its rather than theys. I mastered the en dash and the difference [...]

Wall Street's in turmoil! Shareholder value is evaporating like sweat on Ben Bernanke's pillow. And over at the Washington Post, those buyouts and departures that thinned the ranks of its elite corps of copy editors are having an effect. How else to explain this boner in Glenn Kessler and David S. Hilzenrath's story about the [...]