Congratulations, Tim! The amount of enthusiasm shown for your column is reflected in the number of views it has gotten; and the absence of any oomment other than my own indicates that your words provoke a kind of speechless thought, which is something you should feel good boasting about.

Unlike most of your posts which have numerous grammatical errors, I've only found one in this current piece. Now, most of your errors tend not to be important because, after all, why should you or your readers care?

But today's error - at least I think it's an error, who knows? - is in what appears to be the most important sentence of your thought piece. It goes as follows:

"Of course, most of these projects utilize existing infrastructure and thus do not costs that likely will be involved on the east side."

As a life-long newspaper man, I'm sure you ... and your editors ... At any rate, it is writing like this that no doubt leaves readers absolutely spellbound and stupefied, especially if not exclusively the latter.

Oooooooh, forgive me for editing! Not oomment but comment.

e.d.i.t.i.n.g.

Tim: I hope you'll hoist one this evening -- a toast to the pedant's own petard. (boom)

I don't know how that flaw ever got through the platoon of copy-editors we have at our disposal. I'm guessing that yours are preoccupied with the running up your 'views' count. Deal with them harshly!

I think that what he meany to sais that he been had mistaake in the pass but no now.

When a self-professed newspaper man has to rely on a platoon of copy editors (no hyphen), then one wonders whether or not they are sleep walking through life.

Like teachers tell their students: re-read once or twice before turning in your work. Of course, their students don't face the onerous time pressures faced by the bloggers at PW.

@CB: I guess the sleepwalking 'they' must refer to the platoon, because the 'newspaperman' is singular. 'They' can do whatever you want them to do, since they don't exist (follow the money).

However, if you're ever over my way, please feel free to email any editings -- I find it difficult to proofread for both form and content, and we've traditionally had limitations as to matters like bolding and italics. We can now fix mistakes that we find after we post the blog, however, so fire away!.