After reading Althea Jones’ letter “You’ve Been Sprayed” [May 9, City Weekly], I was reminded of the Saturday Night Live routine from back in the 1970s, when poor, hard-of-hearing Emily Litella (Gilda ...

A day after parting ways with editor Sally Buzbee, The Washington Post published the newspaper equivalent of an Emily Litella “never mind.” “In the pandemic, we were told to keep six feet apart,” the ...

Sometimes, the federal government is as full of misinformation as poor old Emily Litella, the Gilda Radner character, on Saturday Night Live. However, with its bureaucratic heft and clumsiness, it is ...

Expanded intervention in Syria's civil war? The promised “red line” punitive strike? An equivocal pause for congressional rumination? Ambiguous postponement? Or ... a “Saturday Night Live” Emily ...