Be kind, criticize.

Constructive criticism is the kindest cut of all.

Reserve criticism for your friends--your foes won't listen anyway.

HAPPY NEW YEAR !!!

Language-cop Citations

"By the power vested (not 'invested') in me,..."

"Allow four to six weeks for delivery" means allow six weeks for delivery.

Perhaps indicative of his own political stripes, Charlie Gibson referred to "...the assasination of attempted president Ronald Reagan"!

"Panties" should be for toddlers; grown women should wear underpants!

"A human skull has been found. Police want to know who it belongs to." Finders/Keepers, I suppose--whomever it originally belonged to is unlikely to reclaim it!

If comfort is your goal, neither a straggler nor a leader be.

Stragglers will likely be gobbled up by a predator higher in the food chain--not a pleasing prospect for the prey but beneficial, long-term, to the fitness of its herd.

Flap your wings too enthusiastically and you may leave the rest of the flock behind; that's OK, as long as you don't rely on the flock for direction.

When scaling a summit, be sure to conserve sufficient strength for the descent.

The higher one ascends, the more precarious one's perch.

Follow me!

Among lemmings, and the lemming-like, the attraction of hurtling to one's death alongside one's fellows is greater than the prospect of surviving by standing alone.

If one leans too readily on crutches for support, one risks losing the ability to stand alone.