Updating Strunk and White. Link two thoughts with a semicolon, as in: He’s not even the real President; the other, even weirder billionaire seems to be in charge.

It's really hard to be funny. It's even harder to be funny and get paid for it. But the cartoon editor of The New Yorker, Bob Mankoff, has made a living making people laugh for decades.

The Village has lost something. You can’t even get a cup of coffee in the Village anymore unless you go into a building with a store that sells coffee. It’s always “hearts, Cupid, love ...