adj: dazed after long cyber shopping sessions, compounded by additives to your holiday beverage Find this content useful? Share it with your friends!
Perspective
“Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country.” –John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, Friday, January 20, 1961 Find this content useful? Share it with your friends!
(clō-tur-ize)
v. to stall Senate deliberations until no one can bear to watch; see related: (ful-o-blust-er), (new-cu-ler op-shun) Find this content useful? Share it with your friends!
(stu-por-vi-sor)
n: a boss who is asleep at the switch Find this content useful? Share it with your friends!
Thanksgiving Day Shoppers Should Go Cold Turkey
Black Friday’s days are numbered. It had a nice run before having to share the spotlight with Cyber Monday. But surely we all saw this coming. For years, the “official kickoff of Christmas shopping,” “the busiest retail day of the…
Pregnant Pause
“If you have got nine women that doesn’t mean you can have a baby in a month.” — Frederick P. Brooks, a computer science professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, explaining to a New York Times reporter…
(snark-o-lep-sy)
n: sudden, uncontrollable sarcasm triggered by television cameras; most acute in politicians but highly contagious with no known natural immunity among the general population Find this content useful? Share it with your friends!
Legally, a zombie
“I don’t know where that leaves you, but you’re still deceased as far as the law is concerned.”–Hancock County (Ohio) Probate Court Judge Allan Davis to a man seeking reversal of a 1994 death declaration his wife obtained after he…
“Gravity” Highlights Space Debris Issue
More than twenty-four hours after watching the new movie “Gravity” in IMAX 3-D, images from the film continue hurtling periodically through my mental machinery, and like the orbital debris that drives the plot, they keep puncturing and shredding whatever task…
(gov-journ-ment)
n: a timeout imposed on voters for electing poor leaders (Note: There is nothing “poor” about their salaries, which they receive whether working or not.) Find this content useful? Share it with your friends!