“fulsome praise”

ubiquitous but … / see the language-change index

fulsome has had at times all of these meanings: plentiful and abundant; excessive and repulsively gross; curvy and fleshy; overdone and insincere; lavish and wholehearted*

2022-09-25 / notes

*a link; see the about page for how posts – and copies on fw – use links

see Garner on “fulsome praise,” the language-change index, and skunked terms

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Garner: “fulsome praise” (!gb)

Garner: “Key to the Language-Change Index” (!gb)

Garner: “skunked terms” (!gb)

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Henry Fuhrmann (1957–2022)

why newspapers no longer hyphenate Americans

see tweeted article, cached*

2022-09-18 / notes

*a link; see the about page for how posts – and copies on fw – use links

why newspapers no longer hyphenate Americans / Henry Fuhrmann (!?)

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“Henry Fuhrmann, who supervises The Times’ copy editors, was chagrined by the repeated error.”

see LA Times article, cached*





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Washington can’t break its war addiction

a retired lieutenant colonel (USAF) explains

  • war is immensely profitable – for some
  • the stated mission: to project power globally
  • the dominant narrative: “good versus evil”
  • war unifies – and distracts from the class war
  • war also distracts from decline and dysfunction

2022-05-09 / notes

see the about page for how posts – and copies on fw – use links

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William Astore blogs at bracingviews.com

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being and nothing

being aware of being and nothing

  • nothing doesn’t change

  • nothing is ideal

  • nothing depends on nothing

  • nothing doesn’t arise and cease

  • wanting something is dukkha

  • dukkha arises from ignorance

  • in choiceless awareness, dukkha ceases

2022-04-11 / notes

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wanting something / feeling the lack of it

dukkha arises from ignorance (!*)

as anything arises, ask to whom it arises* / self-inquiry (!?)

in choiceless awareness / Krishnamurti (!?)

no one need do more than need be done
to be and let be in choiceless awareness,
to live and let live with love, compassion,
joy, and equanimity (!*)

image credit: Faye Cornish*

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leaders mislead

being led means being misled

  • leaders mislead us with stories

  • believing them, we play our part

  • we think free will is at work

  • what is at work is power*

  • power controls the narrative

  • narrative controls the world

2022-04-05 / notes

*a link; see the about page for how posts – and copies on fw – use links

power controls the narrative (!?)

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Noam Chomsky: Media Control (!gb)

“the very idea of leading …” / Krishnamurti (!?)*

screenshot of tweet*




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