Worst modifier ever

Dunce cap and a dope slap for R. J. Ellory.

Briefly noted: it's now apparently too large for a specific number

Tossed off, almost as an aside, in an AP bit about Florida (Florida!) being overruled by the liberal activist United States Supreme Court:

... and gay marriages are occurring in about three dozen states.

My heterosexual bachelorhood is being soooo threatened by these people.