How politically pragmatic is it to speak ill of Margaret Thatcher?

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10. If you're iin the least choate, you hated Maggie before she died.

And that shouldn't cease now.

(Just one more thing on which Justice Scalia and I disagree.)

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/03/magazine/03FOB-onlanguage-t.html?_r=0
On Language
Choate
Lettering by Ji Lee

By BEN ZIMMER
Published: December 31, 2009

If you’re a lawyer presenting an oral argument before Justice Antonin Scalia of the Supreme Court, never, ever use the word choate. No, not the name Choate (rhymes with “boat”), which graces a Connecticut prep school and the great 19th-century jurist Rufus Choate. The taboo term is choate (pronounced KOH-it or KOH-ate), an adjective defined by Webster’s New World Law Dictionary as “completed or perfected in and of itself” and formed as the opposite of inchoate (“commenced but not completed, partially done”).
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A lawyer named Randolph Barnhouse learned this lesson the hard way in November when he appeared before the Supreme Court as counsel to a company selling tax-free cigarettes over the Internet. Barnhouse said the opportunity to recover taxes on the cigarettes was an “inchoate” interest, not yet fully formed. “Any recovery would not be property until it became choate, until there was an amount of money assigned to it,” he explained.

Scalia stopped Barnhouse cold. “There is no such adjective,” he declared. “I know we have used it, but there is no such adjective as choate. There is inchoate, but the opposite of inchoate is not choate.”