A decent mistake

The writing on Yahoo! Shine goes into a sharp descent after this decent error

Lindsay Lohan’s decent deserves 90 days in the slammer

It’s an article about Lindsay Lohan’s jail sentence, but it should be the writer for Yahoo! Shine who gets sent to the grammar slammer.

I’m thinking 30 days for a typo isn’t too harsh:

Another 30 days for abuse of the language seems right to me. Apparently Ms. Lohan’s descent into alcohol abuse made her decent:

How about another 30 days for these assaults on English?

DUIs aren’t really about D.U.Is; they’re about a correct abbreviation. The damage you’re doing to your credibility when you use the wrong word, add an incorrect comma, and dangle your participle in public, is enormous.

I’ll give her a pass on this mis-hyphenation because she’s trying to hyphen correctly. The joke is on her, though. There are no hyphens in 24 years old:

Is 90 days in the grammar slammer too light a sentence?

Don’t use that to refer to Lady Gaga

It starts out with a minor typo: Yahoo! Shine

but takes a rapid descent into the funny:

M.I.A. is of Sri Lankan descent. And using that to refer to a person isn’t technically wrong, though many authorities would consider it “impolite.” A better word would be who.

Sinking a bit further down is this sentence:

What sort of aids benefit from the MAC Fund? The kind with all uppercase letters: The fund benefits people with HIV and AIDS.

César Chávez: A decent man

Mr. Chávez was a decent man of Mexican descent. At least I think that’s what the writer of this Yahoo! Events teaser meant: