The word for today is… organoleptic (adjective) – 1 : being, affecting, or relating to qualities (such as taste, color, odor, and feel) of a substance (such as a food or drug) that stimulate the sense organs 2 : involving use of the sense organs Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : English speakers first got
The word for today is… grandiloquence (noun) – : a lofty, extravagantly colorful, pompous, or bombastic style, manner, or quality especially in language Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : Grandiloquence, which first appeared in English in the late 16th century, is one of several English words pertaining to speech that derive from the Latin
The word for today is… turbid (adjective) – 1a : thick or opaque with or as if with roiled sediment b : heavy with smoke or mist 2a : deficient in clarity or purity b : characterized by or producing obscurity (as of mind or emotions) Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : Turbid and “turgid” (which means
Time and again we see that there is very little confluence between the deeply-held beliefs of the left, and reality. From climate change to Black Lives Matter, nearly everything that your average leftist believes without question is absolutely counter to hard fact. The Earth is not “dangerously warming” and “97%
It comes as no surprise that the artist in the middle of the rich-lister’s indecent assault case was burying his snout in the arts trough, even while on serious charges: While on bail and accused of imprisonable crimes, Mika X and organisations linked to him were granted thousands of
The word for today is… deference (noun) – respect and esteem due a superior or an elder Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : The words deference and defer both derive from the Latin deferre, which means “to bring down” or “to carry away.” At the same time you might also hear that defer
Louis Armstrong famously said, “If you have to ask what jazz is, you’ll never know”. It was, in short, a question of faith: you just knew it when you felt it. The same is true, in a not-so-different way, of God and the soul. The Bible describes the nagging
Caitlin Clark Colorado State University Whether baked as chips into a cookie, melted into a sweet warm drink or molded into the shape of a smiling bunny, chocolate is one of the world’s most universally consumed foods. Even the biggest chocolate lovers, though, might not recognize what this ancient
Sean Lang Anglia Ruskin University The death of Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh marks the end of a chapter not just for the British royal family – but for European monarchy itself. Philip belonged to that cosmopolitan world of interrelated royals that had ruled Europe before the first world war
Peter Martin Crawford School of Public Policy Australian National University Peter Martin is Business and Economy Editor of The Conversation and a Visiting Fellow at the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University. A former Commonwealth Treasury official, he has worked as Economics Correspondent for the ABC,
Karl D. Stephan mercatornet.com Karl D. Stephan received the B. S. in Engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 1976. Following a year of graduate study at Cornell, he received the Master of Engineering degree in 1977 and was employed by Motorola, Inc. and Scientific-Atlanta as an RF
Donald J. Boudreaux aier.org Donald J. Boudreaux is a senior fellow with American Institute for Economic Research and with the F.A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University; a Mercatus Center Board Member; and a professor of
The word for today is… slipshod (adjective) – 1a : wearing loose shoes or slippers b : down at the heel : shabby 2 : careless, slovenly Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : The word shod is the past tense form of the verb shoe, meaning “to furnish with a shoe”; hence, we can speak of shoeing
Gabriel Hays newsbusters.org Staff writer for MRC Culture. Joe and Betty Anderlik Fellow. University of Dallas Class of ’16. Apparently, the kind of traditional masculinity that has been encouraged by famous psychologist Jordan Peterson is so archetypically evil for our leftist-dominated, snowflake society, that it’s now being depicted
Dave Chappelle’s Sticks and Stones comedy special controversially noted that the “unwritten and unspoken rule of show business” is that “you are never, ever, allowed to upset the alphabet people”. On cue, a goodly slice of the “alphabet people” proved his point by completely losing their glitter-sprinkled shit. But
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Some years ago, reporting a discussion with my then 15 year old Australian son as to his ambitions, an Asian refugee woman said, “He want to go to university and do history degree, then go to New Zealand, join company and “learn rope”. She came
