Speaking of writing, I ran into over 15 cases of an abused semicolon today while editing a newspaper I help with.
The sad thing is that I always end up correcting the editor's edits, because she is terrible at grammar and sentence structure. She took an editorial I wrote, (which I already feel dirty for writing, though I did try to make it as investigative as possible) and edited it into a gramatically atrocious waste of print.
Which I then spent an hour fixing. But I'm not the editor in chief, so she gets the final say of the edits.
Sad. So very, very sad.