Some peeves:

(1) If you’re riding a bicycle, YOU ARE NOT A PEDESTRIAN. I’m sick and tired of cyclists who ride the wrong way down one-way streets or ride through red lights. It happened to me again this morning. I was waiting to cross a street on my way to the PATH station. When the “walk” sign finally lit up, I began crossing, even though I saw a biker coming from the cross-street who I KNEW was going to keep on biking through his just-turned-red light. I wasn’t going to give him the satisfaction of being deferred to. So he chaotically swerved around me and rode on into the intersection, where he had to brake in the face of oncoming traffic. If not for me, he might have made it all the way through. I heard him say, “My gosh!,” which I think was in response to me. I gave him a lingering glare and continued walking.

I don’t care how great you think you are for biking instead of driving a car. You still have to follow traffic rules.

(2) What’s with the phrases “the exception that proves the rule” and “a rule that is more honored more in the breach”? Neither makes sense. The exception doesn’t prove a rule. It’s evidence that there is no rule. As for “honored in the breach,” Google shows me that the phrase made more sense in its original meaning (it’s from Hamlet). But now it’s nonsensical.

(3) Tim Russert needs to learn how to read. Several times on “Meet the Press” every Sunday, a newspaper or book excerpt appears on the screen and he reads along with it aloud, but he inevitably screws up some words. It’s annoying but funny.

Happy Monday!