Yes, of course they do, Don T., and I object to it just as strenuously as you do. That was my point. I was not making any personal comment about Don Firth at all, merely commenting on a popular figure of speech that I don't like very much, and saying something about the prevailing culture that gave birth to that figure of speech.

I am paying attention, and we appear to enthusiastically agree about both the GOP and Corporate America.

(We just disagree to some extent about the Democrats. I think Corporate America runs them too. Unlike the Republicans, though, they don't act as if they were proud of it. That wouldn't please their support base.)