Francis Fukuyama got a lot of heat in the 90s for his statement about "the end of history" - criticism that continued as history stubbornly refused to end.
He probably should have said: "The end of learning about history."
PepsiCo has recently announced that Gatorade - the sports drink that sits in large containers on the sidelines and then gets poured over football coaches near the end of big victories - will now be known simply as G.
And so generations of young people will grow up unaware that this electrolyte beverage was discovered by researchers at the University of Florida to refresh the Gator football team during summer practices.
It shows a lack of respect for the past. Will students soon be reading Lincoln's G Address? Or will they skip it altogether?
And will football announcers now proclaim, just when the game is sealed, that players on the sidelines are headed to the "G-spot"?
