No Shit? That Really Happened?

We had pretty much forgotten that Camille Paglia even existed. But ignorance & oblivion, blissful as they are, cannot last forever. Just a brief selection from what TBogg has already cut to its vitals.

In sonorous real life, Cavett's slow, measured, self-interrupting and clause-ridden syntax is 50 years out of date. Guess what: There has been a revolution in English -- registered in the 1950s in the street slang, colloquial locutions and assertive rhythms of both Beat poetry and rock 'n' roll and now spread far and wide on the Web in the standard jazziness of blogspeak. Does Cavett really mean to offer himself as a linguistic gatekeeper for political achievers in this country?

A revolution, you say? W/ "street slang" & "colloquial locutions?" Damn. How'd we miss that?