I thought we had reached the zenith of liberal language policing.  What with the left grousing like henpecking harridans over improper pronouns, gender labels, offensive jokes, stereotypes, sexual preference, and plain old observations, one might be led to believe that every combination of vowels and consonants was already cordoned off with a generous unfurling of police tape. But, one would be wrong to make that assumption. There’s a new patois proscription, and it’s one that the bleakest of bleak nihilists would endorse, if he or she had such positive feelings to express. Princeton economist Alan Krueger recently committed suicide, shocking his colleagues and fellow economists. (There’s a macabre joke here about his self-slaughter having a negative impact on G.D.P., but I’ll save it.) Famous for allegedly debunking the iron law that says minimum wage hikes lead to unemployment, Krueger also did some empirical work on the detrimental effects of...(Read Full Article)