George Pyle: Controversial U. speaker should be criticized for what he says, not what others imagine

I had a birthday a couple of weeks ago. It was cause to look around and take note of the fact that there are only a couple of people in this newsroom who are older than I am -- and none, so far as I can tell, who make that particularly annoying grunting noise when they get up out of their chair.Old enough to know better, they say. And not too old, I hope, to learn something. And to try again when something didn’t quite work.Last week in this space I thought I was defending the whole idea o