[Peace-discuss] Straining at a gnat...

[C. G. Estabrook]

[Kennedy was a statist reactionary, proclaiming in this speech a new American
fascism, in pursuit of which he spread murder and destruction from Latin
America to SE Asia -- resulting in the deaths of, among others, some four
million people in Asia.  Now he's a liberal paragon ("Obama's just like JFK!"),
so all this popular historian can find to deplore is interference with his
syntactical structures...  --CGE]

	David McCullough urges BC grads to speak properly
	May 19, 3:33 PM (ET)

NEWTON, Mass. (AP) - Pulitzer Prize winning author David McCullough has a
suggestion for what young people can do for their country.
"Please, please do what you can to cure the verbal virus that seems increasingly
rampant among your generation," McCullough implored Boston College's class of
2008 at commencement ceremonies Monday.
He said he's particularly troubled by the "relentless, wearisome use of words"
such as like, awesome and actually.
"Just imagine if in his inaugural address John F. Kennedy had said, 'Ask not
what your country can, you know, do for you, but what you can, like, do for your
country actually," he said.
Graduates apparently thought his speech was, like, awesome. They gave him a
standing ovation.

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