Though it probably won't join VP candidate Dan Quayle's "potatoe" in the Typo Hall of Fame, this press release from the U.S. Department of Education certainly deserves a dishonorable mention. Embarrassingly titled "President Obama To Speak Directly To Students In National Address On Educational Success," the release announces the Prez will address "Schoochildren." Here's a screen capture of the release, in case someone inside the Beltway decides to correct it.

Like Lucy Arnaz, Fox News has some 'splaining to do about an ad that appeared in three major newspapers on Friday, proclaiming that other major news outlets had not covered a recent massive "Tea Party" in Washington. The problem is, they did cover the event - and with more than just a passing clip. The ad appeared in The Wall Street Journal and The New York Post, both of which are owned or controlled by Fox owner Rupert Murdoch, and in the Washington Post, an MSM outlet if ever there was one, which makes that buy somewhat mystifying. The whole thing is mystifying since it's so easily disproved - and it's probably already spawned some Internet email blasts that will circulate for years.

Dust off your old copies of Writing in Style and the MLA Style Guide and celebrate this 24-hour period that has been designated National Punctuation Day. Read, or re-read, Eats, Shoots and Leaves. Engage your friends in spirited debates over comma faults, and when to use a dash and when to employ a colon. Heck, get a colonoscopy if you're really into it! (As a sometime writer for the trucking industry, I prefer the semi-colon myself, but each to their own.) Today is a day for proudly picking apart the latest issue of your daily newspaper!