So, what to do when (1) a communicator finds himself with communications that need communicating, and (2) a grammar curmudgeon finds barnacles growing in out-of-the-way places of his brain that used to house perfectly good vocabulary?  Fire up the blog and get to writing.  Join me for ranting, rambling, mining of stimulating quotes, and (I hope) thought-provoking essays.  And, while you're here, let's link arms in this linguistic Thermopylae, where songs are sung in hushed and reverent tones, to fallen heroes with names like Buckley, Safire, and Lehrer.

In the immortal words of Samuel T. Cogley, attorney at law, "... And more than that, gentlemen - in the name of a humanity fading in the shadow of the machine - I demand it. I demand it!"