The word for today is… mesmerize (US) or mesmerise (Queen’s English) (verb) – 1. To spellbind; enthrall. 2. To hypnotize. Source : The Free Dictionary Etymology : Experts can’t agree on whether Franz Anton Mesmer (1734-1815) was a quack or a genius, but all concede that the late 18th-century physician’s
The word for today is… jink (verb) – To make a quick, evasive turn. Source : The Free Dictionary Etymology : Besides the fact that jink first appears in Scottish English, the exact origins of this shifty little word are unknown. What can be said with certainty is that the word has always
Demography is destiny. Seven decades of Communist Party policies have left China with a soon-to-crash tsunami of the aged and male. The Middle East and Africa’s impoverished fecundity is flooding the West with single young men on the take. In the West, the children of the Baby Boom generation
The word for today is… indite (verb) – 1. To write; compose. 2. To set down in writing. 3. (Obsolete) To dictate. Source : The Free Dictionary Etymology : Indite looks like a misspelling of its homophone indict, meaning “to charge with a crime,” and that’s no mere coincidence. Although the two
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The word for today is… inculcate (verb) – 1. To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill. 2. To teach (others) by frequent instruction or repetition; indoctrinate. Source : The Free Dictionary Etymology : Inculcate derives from the past participle of the Latin verb inculcare, meaning “to
The word for today is… gyre (noun) – A circular or spiral motion or form, especially a circular ocean current. Source : The Free Dictionary Etymology : William Butler Yeats opens his 1920 poem, “The Second Coming,” with the following lines: “Turning and turning in the widening gyre / The falcon cannot hear the
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The word for today is… folklore (noun) – 1. The traditional beliefs, myths, tales, and practices of a people, transmitted orally. 2. The comparative study of folk knowledge and culture. Also called folkloristics. 3. (a) A body of widely accepted but usually spurious notions about a place, group, or institution. (b)
Dave Pellowe goodsauce.news Netflix CEO Reed Hastings has defended his company’s stubborn refusal to remove the movie “Cuties” from its streaming service by sharing an article from left-leaning website The Verge which defends the movie. The opinion piece labelled “independent” by Hastings claims the criticisms of the movie
The word for today is… epistolary (adj) – 1. Of or associated with letters or the writing of letters. 2. Being in the form of a letter. 3. Carried on by or composed of letters. Source : The Free Dictionary Etymology : Epistolary was formed from the noun epistle, which refers to a
The word for today is… derelict (adj) – 1. (a) Deserted by an owner or keeper; abandoned. (b) Run-down; dilapidated. 2. Neglectful of duty or obligation; remiss. See Synonyms at negligent. (noun) – 1. A homeless or jobless person; a vagrant. 2. (Law) (a) Abandoned property, especially a ship abandoned at sea.
“The West,” as Gavin McInnes says. “Is the best.” That statement might trigger the wokesters, but, on almost any measure you can think of, it’s true. Human rights? A Western invention, dating back to at least John Locke. Women’s rights? Ditto. Gay rights? Tick, also. Science? Also a
Back in early July, Steve Elers of Massey University wrote a tongue in cheek article ridiculing transgenderism and their use of pronouns. Since then it appears to have triggered a number of people, including lefty journalist David Farrier. Here are some excerpts from Steve’s article […] This time, however, I
The advocates In Kindness: Part 1, I argued that telling people just to “Be kind” is both inadequate and potentially dangerous and suggested that one should be wary of the motives of the person doing the telling. That person is worth considering more closely. “Be kind”: What do they mean?
The word for today is… catastrophe (noun) – 1. A great, often sudden calamity. 2. A complete failure; a fiasco. 3. The concluding action of a drama, especially a classical tragedy, following the climax and containing a resolution of the plot. 4. A sudden violent change in the earth’s surface;
