Results of our latest poll

Semicolons have widened their lead over asterisks in the past several days, probably because of better funding and a strong grassroots movement on the ground.

I have my finger on the pulse of the people who read my blog

Why are you all so viciously pro-semicolon? Who cares about semicolons?

On punctuation

"The semicolon is ugly, ugly as a tick on a dog's belly. I pinch them out of my prose." -Donald Barthelme