I am beset by lispers on the airwaves. One of the local sponsors of my favorite local conservative radio show, The Bill Nojay Show on my favorite New York talk radio channel, WYSL, has a lisper read their online ad. It irritates me so much I don't even remember whose ad it is.
What's worse, the United States Catholic Conference of Bishops website has a lisper recording the psalms I get with my daily Bible readings. Hearing the psalms spoken as if the reader just finished having dental work done is exasperating! I don't listen to my Bible readings in the morning to start the day irritated. But irritated I am.
I blame the Americans with Disabilities Act. The Act was sold to us as a law that would prevent unfair discrimination against the disabled, which was preventing them from obtaining jobs they were capable of performing. Sounded nice to most, although some of us knew where this would end up.
As we all know, hand a trial lawyer in or out of government a chopstick, and he'll turn it into your suppository.
So it proved with the Americans with Disabilities Act. From the prevention of unnecessary discrimination against the handicapped (yes, I will use the old word), the focus soon became the enrichment of trial lawyers. (This happens to most laws.) Gradually employers realized that they were likely to be hauled into court anytime you turn down anyone with a handicap, no matter what it is, and no matter how relevant that handicap is to the job duties. Do you remember the blind firefighter?
So we are beset with lispers on the radio and barely coherent telemarketers. Do you see why I invoke Shakespeare and intone "I trust not fair terms and a villain's mind"?
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