(Tim, w/thanks to Brian) Below is a quote taken from a story about the recent attack and apparent attempted murder of Indiana State Representative Ed Delaney. Both Delaney and his attacker are attorneys.
[Attorney] DeLaney said, Mendenhall reached into a large zippered bag, ostensibly to get a retainer check DeLaney already had declined. He pulled out a gun, wrapped in a plastic bag.
“I thought that I was in a lot of trouble, and I didn’t know why,” DeLaney said. “He asked me if I was right with God, and I said, ‘That’s between me and him or her.’ “ “I said goodbye or whatever to my Lord. I whispered goodbye to my wife. I was afraid I was dead. I said, ‘OK, you’re dead. If you’ve got any chance of coming back ...you’d better go for the gun.’ So I went for the gun.”
The cynic in me wonders if the "him or her" represents a politico-grammatical studded collar attached to a feminist leash, or the politico-grammatical editing of a journalist. Either are plausible explanations for such idiocy.
The only worse rendition of Delaney's thought is also plausible, given what I hear constantly by supposedly educated people around me:
" . . . that's between he or she and I."
Posted by: Fr. Bill | Tuesday, 10 November 2009 at 09:17 AM
Like sheep without a shepherd...will we weep for them?
Posted by: Ken Pierce | Tuesday, 10 November 2009 at 09:53 AM
Only a lawyer could, at once, observe the jots and tittles of groupthink while crapping his pants.
Posted by: Ira Roth | Tuesday, 10 November 2009 at 07:49 PM
From the Shining City on a Hill to...
"Then Paul stood in the midst of the capitol and said, "People of America, I perceive that in all things you are very religious; for as I was passing through and considering the objects of your worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Therefore, the One whom you worship without knowing, Him I proclaim to you..."
Posted by: Andy Webb | Thursday, 12 November 2009 at 02:56 PM