Daniel Radosh is pretty clearly “right”:http://www.radosh.net/archive/002498.html about The New Yorker‘s style rule on such constructions as, “So I was like, ‘I’ll have you know my dissertation is being published by Cambridge University Press!'” I’m glad to see that the magazine has taken a “step”:http://www.radosh.net/archive/002540.html in the right “direction”:http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/11/24/081124fa_fact_bilger?currentPage=all. It’s painful to see a mere punctuational nicety elevated to a wilful refusal to understand the actual content of the utterance. Hurrah!