Those who (like your columnist) lack the typical American fear and loathing of swear words might well ask "Why on earth not?
In a typical take, Robert Scheer, a liberal columnist for The Los Angeles Times, declared the mess a sign that "capitalism is falling apart".
Mr Hutton is also a left-leaning columnist, and thus not a typical state-slashing free-marketeer.
But there was a time when fentanyl was almost exclusively used by a very small group, and it had nothing to do with a conservative columnist's idea of a "typical drug addict" or poverty or organized crime.
Typical of the media reaction was one columnist's remark: "I do not care if the logo is an eagle, a pigeon, an aardvark, or a dirty dog whizzing on the front lawn.
Last spring, in an example typical of this thinking, the Wall Street Journal columnist Kimberly Strassel diagnosed the Republican Party's ailments thusly: "The base is in the dumps, disenchanted with a party that has lost sight of its economic moorings". The solution?
NEW YORK TIMES Markets Came Out Ahead, Despite Turmoil | The New York Times columnist Floyd Norris writes: "It may have been typical of 2012 that it was politicians and central bankers — not economic news or corporate developments — that dominated investor attention.
Typical box-ticking BBC! PC Britain gone bloody mad!' – Daily Mail columnists and readers of Daily Mail columnists.
Just how far behind, some newspaper columnists began to wonder?His caution was typical of Mr Chrétien, now in his third term.
