The Dumbing Down of The Title “Doctor”
Remember the sports film Draft Day , starring Kevin Costner? Well, there is a scene where Costner, who plays a General Manager for a fictitious pro football team, has another GM by the stones on the day of the NFL draft. It ’ s payback time because the other GM got the best of Costner earlier in the movie. Anyway, Costner has gotten every player he wants in this negotiation, but he wants blood, so out of the blue he asks for some guy nobody knows. When the other GM asks (knowing he has to pay up), “ Where the hell did that come from? ” Costner says, “ Just because I feel like it! ” It ’ s a great line, in a better than average movie. Anyway, that ’ s where this piece comes from. I could have let this go because it happened a number of years back, but when I read excerpts of Jill Biden ’ s recently published memoirs, and how she was so frighteningly shallow and obtuse and untruthful and holier-than-thou when talking about he...