Language Stuff

Just feel like posting some nice phrases or sentences I've come across:

--"large-language generative intelligence" (Paul J. Griffiths)

--we "are [all] members of the Linnaean species Homo sapiens" (Paul J. Griffiths)

--"puts you at the apex of originality" (Lee Siegel)

--"censorious sanctimony" (Sean Wilentz)

--"garish displays of next season's decorations" (Mitch Therieau)

--"while swimming in a warm bath of muted musical intensity" ("  ")

--"Pumpkin spice is back at Starbucks." (Heidi Lux)

--"It's not that I'm lazy. It's that I just don't care." (Office Space)

Mark

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On Trump

I thought I would revisit the topic of President Trump. I am looking forward to watching tomorrow an online forum on Mr. Trump and his tariff policies at MoveOn.

I know little about tariffs, so I hope I learn a lot.

It doesn't appear tariffs have done much good for Mr. Trump in the polls. We will see.

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Nice Phrases

Time for another installment of my euphonic phrases.

--"I want things whole but I love things broken." (Ellen Dore Watson)

--"lest I be left behind" (Pat Schneider)

--"enticements toward experimentation" (Pat Schneider)

--"What a long, strange trip it's been..." (Jerry Garcia)

--"shorewashed shells" (June Jordon)

--"too deep to name and too fearsome to face" (Joanna Macy)

--"the seemingly endless anguish of depression" (John E. Nelson)

--"a friend whose ministrations I sought daily" (William Styron)

--an "unfettered descent into the abyss of despair" (Linda S. Leonard)

--"the hollowness of our self-created identity" (John Welwood)

--"existential despair giving way to self-murder" (Michael Washburn)

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Random Thoughts

Nothing in particular to write, but thinking about the Pulitzer Prizes that are starting to be announced today. I always enjoy looking through the names and especially the names related to opinion writing and other categories tied to newspapers.

If there ever was a time when we could use good nonfiction writing, especially about politics, I can't immediately envision a better one.

As I have been saying, the downfall of Trump will be big and most of us will feel some hellish collateral damage when it occurs.

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