Lucky is one of the best bloggers out there, as I think we all recognize, but that recent post easily qualifies as one of the worst I've seen in a good while. It manages to couple bruit ignorance with an astonishing degree of intellectual myopia. Latin is not exactly obscure, and "cum" isn't exactly an obscure word either. People graduate from college all the time knowing nothing, I suppose, and for them things like the plural of "alumnus" must be terra incognita indeed. How could anyone be so nerdy and weird as to know stuff like that? Why, I've never even met anyone like that!

I'm an optimist, though, and so maybe the next posts will be back to the usual standard. I sure hope so.