I always liked the word '
like'. It indicated positive feelings about someone or something, signified similarity. But when the formerly articulate Jon Stewart, in the first episode of his new show, said "And I'm
like, what?" in a stream of verbiage strewn with meaningless 'likes', it was a sign that '
like' had suffered the final act of logocide, as if the dying word, zombified, had finally infected every last logocidal person, regardless of age, education, you know, and I'm
like, damn.