I just have to laugh about the journalistic aspects of the post above. It employs one of my favorite phrases, "It's widely known."

I cannot tell you how absolutely lazy and lame that phrase is. You would get, at best, a D on any Journalism 101 assignment containing that phrase. It is godawful terrible.

Everyone needs to start using that phrase more. It's widely known, for example, that anyone using the phrase "It's widely known" is yanking your chain.

If AndrewG is a journalist, then AndrewG should be pointing this out, so I will step aside. It's widely known that I was a journalism major for the first half of my college days, so I just had to say something. But it's widely known that I'll be more than happy to step aside and allow an experience journalist who's widely known to further comment on Mr. Singer's stab at appeal to authority, which "widely known" is widely known to be.