Politcally Incorrect ...

So, yesterday in class (tax, of course, for some reason the only class I talk about this semester) we were talking about a hypothetical scenario. The scenario included a person and her "partner." So the person answering the question assumes "business partner." A logical conclusion, right, since the topic of class did involve business. Wrong. The teacher informed him she meant "life partner." Last time I checked, which was this morning, tax law was confusing enough without such problems. And, silly me, I thought law school taught us to be precise in choosing our words. I have accepted that most professors consider it practically criminal to refer to someone as "husband" or "wife" rather than "spouse," but really, when we have perfectly adequate and clear one-word descriptions, why must we resort to these bland and confusing substitutions?! All political issues aside, isn't every "life partner" either a girlfriend or a boyfriend or a husband or a wife (or a spouse if you must)?!

In other politically incorrect news, I have some advice for the president: If you cannot go on a late-night television show without offending someone (which I am pretty sure no politician alive can do while being funny at the same time) maybe you should just focus on trivial things like, oh, running the country, and save your potentially offensive remarks for Congress. I think your advisers forgot to tell you that the campaign for being most popular ended a while ago, and now we want that promised hope and change and joy and love ...