Now, the responsibility, as far as I am concerned, is: does it strike me as valid?
"The song, to me, is valid, it's popular and you're supposed to be innocent until proven guilty.
These seem to me powerful and valid.
And one to me is as valid as the other.
This does not strike me as a valid goal for a government agency.
If that isn't possible, you could ask yourself questions like these: does the person criticising me have a valid point?, Have I heard this criticism before?
But, as I contemplate the end of my mother's life, her dissembling seems to me a perfectly valid means of dealing with a death sentence.
"You see I'm a mighty proud gal and I can't for the life of me, find any valid reason why anyone should lie about their origin or anything else for that matter.
If a child knows that "concerts scare me" is a valid reason not to go to a concert, they are more likely to think that "you wandering off scares Daddy" is a valid reason not to wander off.
Unconcerned by cool, and possibly unaware of what cool was, he was a clean-cut, sweater-wearing authority, somewhere between disc jockey and anchorman, who could present KISS, Marvin Gaye, Toni Basil, the Oak Ridge Boys, or Color Me Badd as equally valid acts, by virtue of their presence on the Top Forty charts.
