[alexander_busek]

[...] I believe some of these would be superstars who fold, spindle, mutilate and mangle our National Anthem have absolutely no idea how the song came to be. [...]

Do you perhaps mean "would-be," with a hyphen? Both sentences (with and without the hyphen between "would" and "be") are grammatical, but have different meanings.

Nice opinion piece - but where does the essay-within-an-essay by Isaac Asimov actually end, and your opinion piece resume?

Regards,

[Peter W. Kessler]

Asimov ends at this point:

—Isaac Asimov, March 1991

I should have used some HTML, i.e., italics, bold, etc. Laziness; my bad.

And you’re right. Would-be would’ve been a better choice.