shall we try to include some radically changed words in our posts?

I can't stand the radical change that's occured in "gay". It of course used to mean happy, and according to today's Bartelby.com feature, Gertrude Stein gave it the homosexual connotation. (http://www.bartelby.com/66/52/55552.html) Then, because of the public's negative view of said group, it came to mean bad or unacceptable, but I think this use is generally confined to younger people. I constantly hear "that's gay" meaning basically "I hate that." It's purely an example of bigotry desroying a perfectly good word.