Having spent a lot of time this week watching the Senate in action, the most outstanding memory is of Adam Schiff memorializing my favorite word in the Congressional Record. And not just once! I can’t wait to see it in print.
For those of you who may not be as involved in the drama as I have been, the word in question has been used by me for most of my adult life—as an adjective, an adverb, a verb, a gerund, and other parts of speech but most spectacularly to express disbelief as the abbreviation WTF. Just because certain unctuous witnesses refused to sully their pristine testimony by being “unable to recall” their use of my favorite word, doesn’t mean that it won’t get its place in history. Thank you, Senator Schiff.
And by the way, I realize that those who first meet me would probably be shocked by this revelation because I personally do know when it is inappropriate to use certain words or phrases. Much of my working life has been spent recording the words of others involved in conducting business—both commercial and political. So I understand the necessity of dignified expression of ideas even when things might get heated. Now obviously people may behave differently when they are behind closed doors so to speak or among those they consider friends. But I hope that most of us would at least own up to something we had uttered in the presence of others, even when it might reflect badly upon us.
We learned about this latest wordplay drama from a very detailed whistleblower letter prepared by someone who was in both the public and private settings. I hope that this letter is examined closely and its revelations taken very seriously. It is short enough to be read into the record in toto.
While I do get my knickers in a twist over much of the stuff I spend my days watching, I do not allow it to interrupt my routine of self care. It is almost like a television drama I can switch off at will and look forward to the next episode (or dread as in this case). And now my routine of reading the Sunday paper awaits.
Who knew that our government actors were so dedicated that they can devote all day and night including weekends to their jobs? Or is it a ploy to avoid scrutiny? You decide.
RESIST ALWAYS
TTFN
Thank you for watching. They evidently "vote" late at night and on weekends. Not so many people are paying attention.
Also it is a distraction from ICE kidnapping people in unmarked vans, and deporting them to "Dention" centers where they abuse them, or to countries other than their original country.😡😠😡😠
‘ And by the way, I realize that those who first meet me would probably be shocked by this revelation because I personally do know when it is inappropriate to use certain words or phrases.’
Katherine, just a thought that that may seem undeveloped and silly but it is early AM where I am as I type this. It seems society has put constraints on certain words to show its “moral superiority” which is another whole discussion that itself would create word cyclones of other discussion which create their own, a logarithmic growth into infinity and/or madness.
Wouldn’t it be simpler to believe the `proper’ use of a word is to communicate which I believe’WTF’ clearly does?
I remember the words of the government tormented sage, Lenny Bruce and how he talked ‘dirty’ and influenced people.