I try not to be a grammar Nazi, but speaking succinctly is important to me, particularly because (as I like to brag), English is not my mother tongue. While I was born in California, we moved to Italy and I started to speak when my American father and Italian mother spoke Italian in the home. They rushed to make sure I spoke English by the time I returned to the States to start kindergarten.

Recently in the impeachment action against 45, there have been various pundits literally saying that the career diplomats are “incredibly credible.” I thought I could let it pass the first time, but I just heard it again. Are they too lazy to think of a better word like “unimpeachably credible” or “extraordinarily credible” perhaps?

There is so much subtle hatred and partisanship that we need to be above the fray when it comes to these things. It is becoming more apparent that right-wing fascists are using Democrat with a capital D as an adjective, as in “the Democrat party is not playing fairly.” Really? Most media hosts do not correct them, but fortunately, some of them, like Joy Reed, stop the show when they try that shit. I even tweeted Anderson Cooper about letting someone get away with that once, not that he replied.