The thing that stopped me when reading that link, Kathryn, was not the nuke-mecca stuff (no comment), but the use of “Leon Klinghoffer” as a verb. I’ve always vaguely thought of this–using personal names as verbs–as an Irish thing. Irish people seem to do it a lot, anyway. Imus isn’t Irish, though, is he?
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Mr. Derbyshire is a former contributing editor of National Review.
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