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- Should writers feel sheepish for describing former Secret Service director Julia Pierson as sheepish in the wake of security lapses that could have been disastrous?
If I take the time to find a pen and circle things in the morning paper, I can take a few minutes more and explain why I bothered.
Maybe Ahmed is a cynical mercenary. Maybe what he actually feels is shame. Whatever. Sheepishly will do.
A column by Bloomberg’s Jonathan Bernstein on Ted Cruz’s presidential prospects ran on the Trib op-ed pages. Recalling the 2013 government shutdown, which Cruz had plenty to do with, Bernstein said it “had the side effect of distracting the press from the disastrous first weeks of the Affordable Care Act exchange rollout.”
I broke my pen out for the third time. Is there a difference between said jokingly (or jokingly told) and joked? Is the difference that joked would have made what Richards said sound flippant, while said jokingly gets the idea across that he was kidding on the square? After all, Richards went on talking about New York, and he sounded bruised, not amused.
