Well, he is an advocate of weed deregulation and “420” (including symbolic times such as April 20 and 4:20 pm) is a 50 year old term that has been used for marijuana usage and advocacy for legalization (originally a code phrase coined by some highschoolers, one or two who later bec...
Wait. They ARE sociopathic. They may not be actual monsters, but clearly they meet the diagnostic criteria for being sociopaths. They have a weak and limited capacity to feel empathy and remorse. Some of them may, it’s true, be sincere when they mouth the phrase ‘thoughts and prayers’....
Located in Santa Clara, Bay Spa is just a bit too far for me to drive to from my house in San Francisco but it’s a quick 20-minute drive from Saratoga, so when January’s chilly damp had me craving a scrub and a soak, I booked a session there. My scrub appointment was at t...
This is half of why I hate the phrase, “it’s just a cat”. You would not say “it’s just your sister”. “It’s just your wife” would never cross someone’s lips. Continue readingThere Is No ‘Just a Cat’ Sunday Sharing – 2020/07/19 Published by Herb on 2020-07-19 ...
Ever hear the phrase that an elephant is a mouse built to government specifications? Well that press release was the government version of somebody saying, ‘it sounded like a good idea at the time’. Several hours into the news cycle and already the powers that be are stating that, “No...
Ive just slowed it down a bit. The physio gave me a printout of exercises which only gave me lots of pain so that went in the bin toot sweet. Ive slowed up from my usual rushing around Im”cutting my cloth to suit” I think is the phrase and am coping. FINALLY Im acting my age...
immediately threatening to the majority of my students, and it’s a challenge to get them to engage with the concepts, especially when their previous education has emphasized gaming a series of standardized tests. So, for example, when I use the phrase ‘patriarchal society,’ many students ...
In real life it is always the anvil that breaks the hammer, never the other way about: a writer who stopped to think what he was saying would avoid perverting the original phrase. Operators, or verbal false limbs. These save the trouble of picking out appropriate verbs and nouns, and at...
Catchy Phrase I wasn’t fond of catch phrases or slogans before cancer, but after I was done with treatment (in my white-hot angry phase), I came to HATE them. Oh no, is that a cancer lesson? (Yes, that’s sarcasm.) I’ve eased up a little bit in my loathing of catch phrases...
The unbelievers will say they are but words, but a slogan, but a flamboyant phrase. Every pedant, every demagogue, every cynic, every hypocrite, every troublemaker, and, I am sorry to say, some others of an entirely different character, will try to downgrade them even to the extent of ...