The word for today is… mordant (adjective, noun, verb): adjective 1 : biting and caustic in thought, manner, or style 2 : acting as a mordant (as in dyeing) 3 : burning, pungent noun 1 : a chemical that fixes a dye in or on a substance by combining with the dye to form
The word for today is… akimbo (adjective or adverb): 1 : having the hand on the hip and the elbow turned outward 2 : set in a bent position Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : It’s akimbo nowadays, but in Middle English, the adverbial phrase in kenebowe was used for the bent, hand-on-hip
I wrote about our Cat, Oliver, and how I hoped he would provide solace for my wife when I shipped out as a result of my cancer. You can read the original article here. Well, things have changed somewhat since March last year. I’m still here, much to my
If you’ve ever wondered how we got from “gay people should be left alone” to men in dresses waving their dicks at children at “Family Friendly Pride Events”, you’re not alone. While it may seem like the onslaught of transgenderism and rainbow groomers has come out of nowhere,
Naomi Wolf brownstone.org Naomi Wolf is a bestselling author, columnist, and professor; she is a graduate of Yale University and received a doctorate from Oxford. She is cofounder and CEO of DailyClout.io, a successful civic tech company. When, in Fall of 2019, I moved out of what had
validate (verb): 1a : to make legally valid : ratify b : to grant official sanction to by marking c : to confirm the validity of (e. g. an election) 2a : to support or corroborate on a sound or authoritative basis b : to recognize, establish, or illustrate the worthiness or legitimacy of Source : Merriam
One of the go-to claims of the child-mutilation cult, sorry, “transgender lobby” is that if they don’t get to hack into kids’ genitals or put them on chemical castration drugs, they’ll be popping themselves off faster than you can say “groomer”. We hear it, time and again: child-mutilation
The word for today is… eccentric (adjective, noun): adjective 1a : deviating from conventional or accepted usage or conduct especially in odd or whimsical ways b : deviating from an established or usual pattern or style 2a : deviating from a circular path b : located elsewhere than at the geometric center noun 1
The word for today is… carp (verb, noun): verb to find fault or complain querulously noun 1 complaint 2 : a large variable Asian soft-finned freshwater cyprinid fish (Cyprinus carpio) of sluggish waters that is often raised for food: any of various related cyprinid fishes (such as the grass carp) 2
John Curtice University of Strathclyde John Curtice is a Senior Research Fellow at NatCen Social Research, Professor of Politics at the University of Strathclyde and Research Consultant to the Scottish Centre for Social Research. He is particularly interested in electoral behaviour, electoral systems, and political and social attitudes. The death
The word for today is… postulate (verb, noun): verb 1 : demand, claim 2a : to assume or claim as true, existent, or necessary : depend upon or start from the postulate of b : to assume as a postulate or axiom (as in logic or mathematics) noun 1 : a hypothesis advanced as an
Michael Cook mercatornet.com Michael Cook is the editor of MercatorNet. He lives in Sydney, Australia. The most memorable speech that Queen Elizabeth II ever gave was five years before her coronation. It was delivered in 1947 on a radio broadcast from South Africa, where she was on a royal
The death of Queen Elizabeth II, whom many thought would go on forever, got me searching for a magazine article published in This England marking her fifty years on the throne. The article gave a very good account of the week leading up to the momentous moment she learned of
The word for today is… inscrutable (adjective): : not readily investigated, interpreted, or understood Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : Scrutinizing the inscrutable may be futile: even close scrutiny can fail to decipher it. Scrutinizing the scrutable, on the other hand, is likely to yield some understanding. All of these scrut- words have
The word for today is… recidivism (noun): : a tendency to relapse into a previous condition or mode of behavior, especially a relapse into criminal behavior Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : The re- in recidivism is the same re- in relapse and return, and like those words recidivism is about going back:
The word for today is… aquiline (adjective): 1 : of, relating to, or resembling an eagle 2 : curving like an eagle’s beak Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : Aquiline, from the Latin word meaning “eagle”, is most often used to describe a nose that has a broad curve and is slightly hooked,
