or whomever wrote speeches for Kennedy

The speeches are the (direct) object - they have something done to them. The writer is the subject, he does something to the speeches.

Therefore s/whomever/whoever/.

I wasn't aware that rhyming was a necessary or a sufficient condition for being poetry. Well, you're the expert, or so you claim.

The New Yorker reviews linguist Gretchen McCulloch's new book ...

FTFY.

Sounds like bullshit to me. Wet potatoes go off really quickly, almost overnight. Anyone trying that trick would get zero repeat business.

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What kind of retard speak is this?

Mmm, Tibet? Weren't they involved in Korea too?

What about Hitler, Neapolitan, or Genghis Khan?

Type mismatch - expected parameter of type dictator, found icecream. Bailing near line 473.

The average age of a nuclear power plant in this country is 38 years old

Its age is zero milliseconds old, since it refreshes continually as time passes.

Did you mean "The average age of a nuclear power plant in this country is 38 years", or perhaps "The average nuclear power plant in this country is 38 years old"?

Don't play the hobbier-than-thou card with me, young man!

They can't be that smart. Just look at their handwriting!

Not the brain. Different body part.

If something in psychology hasn't already been known since ancient times, it's almost certainly false.

Like the Dunning-Krueger effect? I wonder why that sprang to mind!

There's a big scandal going on right now about prosecutors not disclosing evidence. Not quite the same thing, but if there's doubt about a conviction there is an appeal mechanism.

Editor David is also Meaningless and Should Be Retired.

No. And that goes for astrologers, feng-shuists, and chiropractors too.