“Yacht” is a status word, vessel, and club. Yachts serve as the secret X-ray decoder rings for the upper class in our society. I wonder if it is related to the word “yah?” yah 1 |yä| nounBrit. informal an upper-class person: the cafe is full of yahs whose daddies own chateaux in France. ORIGIN representation […]
Outrage!
I started another post for my “O” entry for the A to Z April blog challenge. During the time between two medical appointments today I updated the operating system on my desktop computer. I had begun blogging on my iPad but by this evening when I had planned to finish the blog, I shifted from […]
MSNBC Is Political, Fox Is Political, News Is Not Political
My husband and I, both televised political and news coverage junkies, disagree about how much coverage to allow into our home, but the one area in which we are in agreement is that MSNBC is the only mainstream news entity that routinely covers progressive analysis of topics. Allow me to re-emphasize that last point, if […]
The Letter L is for Lists, Luck, Ledbetter, and Logic
Today is Friday the 13th and I would be remiss if I did not mention the concept of luck in an “L-themed” post written as part of an A to Z challenge on such a date. The topic decision was a tough one as it always is for me; there is so much to write […]
Free Thinking on Freedom for Easter Free Writing
A to Z bloggers get Sunday off, and weekends are for free writing in the NaBloPoMo challenge – so I’ve rolled quite a few topics around on my tongue today, just to see how they tasted. No one thing popped up as a hearty meal, so I am serving up some thought tapas today. First […]
F is for Feminist and It Is Not an "F Word"
F is for Feminist I believe that some of the young women who did not, and still may not, like the word Feminist have started to understand why Later Born Baby Boomers as well as women of the preceding generations still use the word. This makes me sad. Words that end with isms and ists […]