Double-talk

With phrases like "post acquittal detention power," referring to Guantanamo prisoners, being used by our Obama administration, it’s no wonder that a local MRDD board has decided to jump onto the euphemistic band wagon and change its name eliminating ‘retarded’ from the acronym, leaving just the ‘developing disabilities’ phrase in tact. Retardation being a ‘derogatory’ word. Would George Orwell be proud to know that doublespeak rules America? Long ago the garbage man became a sanitary engineer. Double speak plus double standards means a a bi-partisan, bi-polar America. Moral schizophrenia. Steve McNair, of the recent mistress murder/suicide fame, is a disgrace to his race, but a memorial to his greatness has not been canceled. A message should ring loud and clear about a father’s betrayal of his wife and 4 sons, his abandonment of decency, responsibility and family values (could fleeting fame and guaranteed fortune have had anything to with it? ). Shame, shame, shame. But no, in today’s culture there’s no sermon preached on the need for shame. No means yes; too often evil’s overlooked or dismissed. Instead, America repeatedly relives its Princess Di moments whenever a shameful, sinful icon dies.