It's tempting to give Chris Christie his due for tipping Marco Rubio upside down and shaking the nothing out of his empty suit, but if he really wanted to perform a public service, he should have stayed in the race and gotten to work on Trump and Cruz. Maybe it was only that one night that Christie had special powers. If so, he probably wishes he had helped himself instead of outed Rubio. Apparently, Republican voters dislike mean boys even more than slow ones. My favorite Republican, Kasich, had a good night, but let's face it: with the campaign headed south, he's doomed. It's going to be Trump, unless it's Cruz, right? The voting has started, two races run, Trump has a gold and a silver, Cruz a gold and a bronze, and the Republicans of Dixie are mostly crazy and therefore a good fit for both of them.
Are you more interested in grammar than presidential politics? I am a strong supporter of the serial comma, sometimes called the Oxford comma. It's the one placed right before "and" in a sentence containing a list. Minneapolis's Star Tribune newspaper abjures the Oxford comma, but I think it is always acceptable and sometimes necessary. Consider these sentences:
I invited to my birthday party two strippers, Donald Trump, and Ted Cruz.
I invited to my birthday party two strippers, Donald Trump and Ted Cruz.
In the first sentence, there are four invitees: two who are strippers plus two buffoons. In the second, only two people are coming--a couple of strippers who are also buffoons.
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