Monday, January 18, 2016

The Top 40: Comment on 13 Hours: Appointment Cinema

The Top 40: Comment on 13 Hours: Appointment Cinema: The Accountant works though His instruments -- humans, tsunamis, plagues, ... Call it random or guided by principles of physics if you prefer.

Against the greatest political power on earth, our 1776'ers risked their lives.
Against the Em'bama we are reluctant to risk our buzzing hives.
Human motives and powers are the controllable forces.
Let's get a grip. If we don't know how, let's find out.

AMERICAN DIGEST Essays, News, Notes, and Quotes

AMERICAN DIGEST Essays, News, Notes, and Quotes: In promulgating your esoteric cogitations or articulating your superficial sentimentalities and amicable philosophical or psychological observations, beware of platitudinous ponderosity.

Let your conversational communications possess a compacted conciseness, a clarified comprehensibility, a coalescent cogency and a concatenated consistency. Eschew obfuscation and all conglomerations of flatulent garrulity, jejune babblement and asinine affectations.

Let your extemporaneous descants and unpremeditated expatiations possess intelligibility and voracious vivacity without rodomontade or thrasonical bombast. Sedulously avoid all vapid verbosity, polysyllabic profundity, pompous prolificacy. salacious suspiration and pestiferous profanity.

That is, say what you mean and mean what you say. Be brief and don’t use big words! Yogi Berra Left His Mark On Our English Language | Richard Lederer's Verbivore