Words and language are odd things: They can make us howl in laughter, or, change the arrangements, they can cast us into a pit of despair. Then, time went by, and we all more or less made it out of third grade psychologically intact -- but it was close for some, right?
If you kept both those extremes conceptually close, you're probably well-armed for everything else that followed. However, as we are all spiraling in on dementia, sooner or later, maybe some memory-joggers of those old survival skills will prove useful.
If you are at all fascinated by language, for example, you have to love it when someone gifts you with enough descriptive ammo to build a phrase like, "Romney's a flip-flopper, a stripper, and a flipper." All we're missing is The Gipper. Or not, as it turns out.
That such adjectives are launched by Ronald St. Reagan's former budget director, David Stockman, makes each word that much more powerful. And sweeter.
With luck, we can look forward to a former Massachusetts gubernatorial aide defecting, anxious to babble about Romney's one-term leadership outing, explaining that woeful, low-ball Willard-approval rating with as much concise research as Stockman explains Bain... and the Mittster himself.
The story link's below, along with some others. They're worth your time.
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