the new english? Totally different point

[Bethany K. Dumas]

>Several years ago I started seeing in newspapers, especially in editorial
>writing, a sentence beginning with a conjunction followed by a comma.
>More recently it has become pervasive.
>
>I'm not going to be so schoolmarmish to suggest that you can't begin a
>sentence with a conjunction. I do it myself. But that damn comma really
>bugs me. The whole point of starting with a conjunction is for flow, and
>the comma disrupts that.

But, to modify the topic a bit, what about sentences like this one?

Or do I get an F?

Bethany