Our planners and bureaucrats and politicians are using safety as a reason, rationale or excuse to help implement many of their changes. These changes to the way we live, drive and work together, may in fact have very little if anything to do with safety. Safety seems to be the
The word for today is… stir-crazy (adjective): slang : distraught because of prolonged confinement Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : Stir-crazy originated as a word to describe a prisoner who became distraught after prolonged confinement. Stir is a 19th-century slang word for “prison” that some word historians have suspected to
Julian Adorney Geoff Laughton fee.org Julian is a former political op-ed writer and current nonprofit marketer. His work has been featured in FEE, National Review, Playboy, and Lawrence Reed’s economics anthology Excuse Me, Professor. Geoff is a relationship counselor with 25 years of experience helping couples. He
The word for today is… tome (noun): 1 : book especially : a large or scholarly book 2 : a volume forming part of a larger work -tome (noun combining form) 1 : part, segment – e.g. myotome 2 : cutting instrument – e.g. microtome Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : Tome comes from Greek tomos, meaning
David Thunder mercatornet.com David Thunder is a researcher and lecturer at the University of Navarra’s Institute for Culture and Society. Just as we thought we were on the other side of the pandemic, with all the harms that inflicted, both natural and political, we were confronted with another
The word for today is… finesse (noun,verb): noun : skill and cleverness that is shown in the way someone deals with a situation, problem, etc. verb : to make a finesse in playing cards Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : Finesse originally referred to refinement or delicacy of workmanship, structure, or texture; that
The word for today is… layman (noun): 1 : a person who is not a member of the clergy 2 : a person who does not belong to a particular profession or who is not expert in some field Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : Layman is a closed compound of lay man. Lay
When it comes to selecting the dumbest thing the media-political class have said about the Ukraine, it is, to use an appropriately military metaphor, a target-rich environment. I’m not just talking about the jaw-dropping hypocrisy of Justin “Moosealini” Trudeau vowing to “stand against authoritarianism”, or US
Ananish Chaudhuri is Professor of Experimental Economics at the University of Auckland and the author of “Nudged into lockdown? Behavioural Economics, Uncertainty and Covid-19”. The views expressed are his own. I saw recently that a media-friendly scientist has taken to commenting about sailing. I presume this was to
The word for today is… voluble (adjective): 1 : easily rolling or turning 2 : characterized by ready or rapid speech Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : Voluble traces back to Latin volvere, meaning “to set in a circular course” or “to cause to roll.” English rolled with that meaning, using voluble as an
The word for today is… probity (noun): adherence to the highest principles and ideals Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : Probity and its synonyms honesty, honor, and integrity all mean uprightness of character or action, with some slight differences in emphasis. Honesty implies a refusal to lie or deceive in any way.
Many years ago, I had a friend who had a disconcerting habit of listening. Disconcerting? you are surely asking. Well, yes: in conversation, he would sit still, look you in the eye, and not say a thing until you’d finished talking. It was a disconcerting habit, as I say,
The word for today is… predicate (noun, verb, adjective): A seemingly simple little word today, but a lot lurks within. noun: 1a : something that is affirmed or denied of the subject in a proposition in logic b : a term designating a property or relation 2 :grammar : the part of a
The word for today is… antithetical (adjective): 1 : being in direct and unequivocal opposition Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : Antithetical and antithesis come from Greek antitithenai (“to oppose”). The oldest sense of antithesis refers to a language pattern that contrasts parallel ideas, as in “action, not words” or “they promised freedom
Fiona E. McNeill McMaster University Fiona E. McNeill is a Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at McMaster University. She builds biomedical devices to painlessly assess people’s body burden of toxic metals. She uses the technology in population studies to see whether exposure to poisonous metals can
The Parlermaid Information Long Read 4668 words The shocking scenes depicted on mobile and computer screens around New Zealand on Black Wednesday, 2nd of March 2022, streaming from the vicinity of Parliament House have been hailed as a great victory by the Left. But was it really? I’m not
