21.   On the morning news programs, pundits were out in force.

22.   Over the last couple of years, music pundits have been quick to declare the death of heavy metal.

23.   Pundits are busy questioning what business celebs like Warren Beatty, Cybill Shepherd, Donald Trump and Jesse Ventura have running for the presidency.

24.   Pundits are on the offensive.

25.   Pundits are very powerful people in the political process.

26.   Pundits have been unable to reconcile these facts, which seem to point to opposite conclusions.

27.   Pundits were scathing, but the public loved it.

28.   Say, where are those pundits when you need them?

29.   Sideline pundits are prone to speculate that the IOC anointed Beijing to reward Olympic sponsors eager to spread their products and services through this largely virginal territory.

30.   Somehow in all my years in newspapering nobody bothered to tell me exactly what a pundit is and I forgot to ask.