Q. On Letterman's first show back, his Top 10 list had this: "I don't have a joke. I just want to remind everyone that we're on strike, so none of us are responsible for this lame list." Shouldn't it be "so none of us IS responsible"? — Barbara Wilkinson, East Haddam, Conn.

A. For a minute there, I thought you were going to ask me about the political correctness of "lame," a term of disparagement favored by teenagers. Does using "lame" to m ...

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