Why is it necessary to travel to a foreign clime to make great claims of derring-do? If POTUS could achieve all his claims, why doesn’t he just stay home and achieve them?
Author: Kilgore Forelle
Words Poorly Used #116 — Right
A way of achieving lawlessness is to have too many laws. A way of gaining inarticulation is to overload words with too many meanings. The word, “right,” is overloaded beyond recognition.
Words Poorly Used, Another Devil’s Dictionary #5
Gall — That of which it takes a superfluity to make a speech in Vietnam that claims that the US has been taken advantage of. Sexual Misconduct — Sexual conduct. Dance — What tough guys don’t do.
Words Poorly Used #115 — Fault
I posted a link on Facebook about a self-driving auto in Las Vegas that had a wreck within the hour of its intro to the streets. Several people were quick to respond that the misadventure had truly been caused by a human truck driver.
Unforeseen Consequences
There is a word for people who do not read: Illiterate. There is a word for people who are challenged by quantitative concepts: Innumerate. What would be the word for those swoggled by unforeseen consequences? Inconsequential?
Conundrums
Which is the lesser of two evils — having a lesser evil in public office or having a greater evil moaning about losing? If the candidate who was the greater of two evils loses thereby, doesn’t that outcome represent a lesser of two evils?
This Just In
The media are dithering again. They incorrectly interpreted the Donna Brazile story to say that elections had been rigged. Now they are sticking to that incorrect story against a tsunami of contradicting fact.
Past, Present, and Future
A fundamental truth is that we only have the present in which to act on the results of the past and to effect our preferences for the future. To hope to relive the past is as futile as anything we can do.
Heedless Speed
As the Congress declares a radically accelerated time frame for passage of “tax reform,” my suspicion of their hurry grows. Is the objective of more knowledge served by a breakneck pace?
Pot Meet Kettle, Kettle, Pot
It seems odd that associates of one political party will regard members of opposing political parties as though they have character defects.