Friends and I meet monthly, and we call ourselves, informally, the logic group. The inevitable question came up but what do you do about it? I begin to make a mental list of things I do.
Author: Kilgore Forelle
Words Poorly Used #105 — Insurance
A substantial part of my jagged career was spent in the vineyards of the property and casualty insurance business. I learned that, in its principled form, true insurance was only possible where every unit was equally exposed to a loss.
Academia
I must admit that I am a college faculty member. Worse yet, I work as an adjunct instructor for a state-funded community/technical system of colleges. But let me hasten to add that there are many independent thinkers among my colleagues. The wrong-headedness that rolls out from campuses is the work of a small part of Academia.
Cover Your Ass
First, Mitch McConnell made a speech criticizing POTUS, then POTUS tweeted some insults directed toward Majority Leader McConnell. This is an elaborate dance. Now both POTUS and MLOTSOTUS have reciprocal excuses. Congress is not moving efficiently and effectively.
Words Poorly Used, Another Devil’s Dictionary #3
Clarity — in politics, that which is to be avoided at all costs. Unnecessary — anything spouted by a former political minion who has been handed the pink slip.
Make Haste, Waste, Confusion
I know this POTUS needs a fence post in the ground. Without one, he will never have more, he will repair no fences. But his tweetstorm admonitions for speed are counterproductive. What is he, a muleskinner?
Words Poorly Used #104 — Clarity
POTUS keeps having a legislative and executive agenda, but he appears to fear any kind of specificity regarding details. Is this so that he can claim that any misshapen mess represents a success of deal-making? The word misused in this case is “clarity.”
Families and Groups
I do not believe that there are “happy” or “unhappy” families. There are families that undergo constant change, and there is an infinite supply of adjectives that apply to families. Everything that is true of families is also true of any other multi-individual group.
Job Description
If you were the top political adviser to a politician, how much sense would it make to say that the advice-recipient made the worst political mistake in modern history?
Storm Watch
These days we get warnings, graphics, and hyperbole. I have a friend on Daufuskie Island, in Georgia, who says the worst part is the waiting. I suspect the waiting would be tolerable without the handwringing and flatscreen teevees.