If that is the case, why is it that Dr. Boys has such difficulty with constructing paragraphs, using proper punctuation, spelling words correctly and telling the truth? (from Uncle Slayton)
Well, Uncle, I have only written and published my own B. S. and Ph. D. theses, as well as many technical papers and reports. Even so, one of my my employers required all professionals to be instructed in writing and editing by professional journalists -- regardless of past writing history. Having Bob Burger's inscription of being one of his best students, on the flyleaf of his well-known text "How To Write So People Can Understand You," I feel competent to ask you what your qualifications are. So, what are they? (I will warn you that one of the things we learned in these advanced courses is that the typical high school English teacher is usually quite incapable of teaching useful, saleable communication prose.)
Note that in the article, Don Boys has written plenty of publishably formulated columns: "These columns go to newspapers, magazines, television, and radio stations."
In this column, did you find any other mistyped word than the word "judged"?
I found no trouble anywhere in the column in following his thought. What is your problem in the way he chose to punctuate or divide the thoughts?
And where in this article do you find Dr. Boys lying to you?
It seems as though you have a bigger problem with the philosophy of his Biblical applications than you do with the mechanics of his writing skills. Why don't you give us a link to some of your published work? That might be interesting --
Respectfully --
(P. S.: You might want to put a comma between the words "correctly" and "and" in your comment quoted above.)
Simply due to the fact that a person has written columns that go to newspapers, magazines, television, and radio stations does not assert that he is equipped with skills required to coherently convey a thought or that he earn better that a C- on in a eight grade English Composition class.
For example, in the first sentence of the column, Dr. Boys reveals that he is unable to correctly spell Philip Caminiti’s name correctly.
His second paragraph begins with informing the reader that Caminiti will be supervised once he is released from prison and ends with his belief that parents who do not spank their children are child abusers.
From that point, Boys continues his rant, rambling from one thought to another abusing the exclamation mark as if it were a Caminiti parishioner’s two month old baby wetting her diaper.