I'm very, very sorry to do this, but...
Stu Savory, in a comment to my post below (about issues of punctuation tying up court proceedings in the San Francisco same-sex marriage shenanigans) points out the obvious groaner I completely missed.
Whereas Judge James Warren took issue with the way the plaintiffs made use of a semicolon, the plaintiffs, of course, are up in arms over the misuse of colons.
On reflection, I'm kind of proud that I missed that one ;-)
