“ humble and proud”

            St James Cancer Hospital opens

Did you know that you can be humble and proud at the same time? An ad for the opening of the St. James Cancer Hospital in Cols. OH., claims that after years in the making, it now opens “ humble and proud” to be the best cancer hospital in the country.  Not to disparage cancer diagnosis and treatment ( oh, well,why not?) the pervasive sickness in America today nears epidemic proportions of misuse and misunderstanding of language.  Capture the language, however, (why said that?) and you capture the imagination of the masses, win the propaganda game and spread the cancer of contradiction.