Going All-in: Declaring independence

I really thought of skipping our little Sunday morning exercise in spelling and grammar after spending much of the week out of the office. But when I got back to the office, that ancient tome, the Columnist Manifesto (not to be confused with the book by Karl Marx), was in all its red, white and blue glory (not to mention a whiff of maple leaf, for our readers in Canada), all agog about the Fourth of July and everything it means.