If nothing else, the election is generating some valuable new word coinages.
Pissenfranchised: (noun) Democratic voters who threaten to cross party lines to cast their ballot if the candidate they support does not win the nomination.
To hillinger: (verb) To forestall certain death for anywhere from two weeks to four months.
Disentrancized: (adj) No longer taken in by Obama's oracular conjuration.
Proctovsionary: (noun) Person who looks at the world with one’s head up one’s ass.
Ad-hocracy: (noun) What you get when government keeps slapping new agencies and programs onto itself reacting to new perceived threats, problems, crises, issues, etc.
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NOTE: This post should not be construed as support of any specific wonderful/awful candidate whom you may be idolizing/despising at the moment.
Science is Hard…Amazonia/Climate Change Edition
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Crossposted at Inverse Square Last week, Nature published a multi-media
story by Meghie Rodrigues (words) and Lalo de Almeida (pictures) on an
experiment...
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