You are a suspect. You may have seen this, and yes, I did get the link from MetaFilter (do they always credit their sources?), but I thought it was worth repeating. And it's in a
William Safire editorial, not something I tend to agree with (but I do enjoy his column
On Language).
Yeah, yeah, nytimes login, in case you don't have it; login: opensewer; password: iswatching.