“This must be the golden age of endless and pointless talk.”
24th August 2008
Thomas Sowell says what needs to be said.
While this trend of self-dramatization is most visible in sports, it extends well beyond athletes. Parents give their children off-the-wall names. “Mary” has long since lost its place as the perennially most popular name for girls. There is a high turnover in what names are hot and which ones are not. Apparently everyone has to try to outdo everyone else, even in naming children.