Rethinking 'Retarded': Should It Leave The Lexicon? : NPR

I'm as guilty of this as anyone, but Leslie has always been down on the casual use of this word.

Apparently, the move to make it taboo is growing. It would be nice to see us all speak better of others and to not toss around cruel words so casually.

Granted, I've got a lot of work to do on that myself with other words.