I, for one, am anti-PC. I like to call a long-handled device for earth removal a spade. These days, while our everyday language seems to be dumbing down, words referring to groups of people have been expanded syllabically yet are less descriptive than ever. Dwarves and midgets are now "little people". Makes them sound like leprechauns or fairies to me. Black people are now "African-American". The retarded are now "differently abled", and retarded is considered pejorative. No -- it simply means that they are less advanced physically, mentally, or emotionally than is usual for their age. It is simply descriptive. But PCness seems to be more about obfuscating things that we'd rather not deal with than describing them. A person isn't "dead"... they "passed away", or worse yet, "went home to be with the Lord". A person isn't "old", they are a "senior citizen". I refuse to beat around the bush in this fashion.