Confessions of ignorance

Happy Memorial Day. I've been working on a longer more complicated post in an effort to revive this blog, but as I find happens when I a...

“For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which  will  not  be  charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the LORD.” That is...

 This one came to me in the form a crossword puzzle clue: "ancient Greek robot." It was recent, so maybe some of you have come acr...

 I put the word "hackneyed" on my long backlist of words to look into in April 2021, so it seems high time to bring it out of the ...

 When I started this post, I wasn't thinking of a word for "a short and striking phrase used in advertising." I was thinking o...

Photo by Howard Arlander   So what is it, exactly? With Congress in tension over two bills on infrastructure, one being on the traditional k...

We were hearing the word 'racketeering' coming up quite a bit, what with the Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis ad...