Writers at the Washington Post, including Hank Stuever, have taken South Carolina governor Mark Sanford to task for his use of language in yesterday's HIGHLY ENTERTAINING and totally wacko press conference. They wrote: "Note all the passive constructions, the avoidance of first person." Actually, this is wildly inaccurate on both counts, writes Mark Liberman: "I count 180 tensed verbs, of which I can find only four instances of grammatical passive voice." Oh it goes on! I would get all up in this but I didn't go to no college and I'm not very good on parts of speech.

I am totally disappointed in everyone making fun of the Mark Sanford emails! Everyone on the TV last night was giggling and shouting about them. I think that none of them have ever received a proper love letter. Loveless TV heathens! And I think it is wonderful that the governor of South Carolina, who could have been some stuffy fuddy-duddy jerkface, has poetry in his heart, and actually has the language to express it! When was the last time you got an email that began: "I am most jealous of your salad under the palm tree." HOW WONDERFUL IS THAT? THAT IS GREAT STUFF. In the age of the text message that mostly says "What R U Up 2?," I would totally do him.