Shipwrecked & Comatose

You know what? I don't care about illegal immigration. Neither should you. Do you really think people sneaking over the border are a threat to your way of life? How so?  When you eat dinner, take a long look at what's on your table. Undocumented workers likely picked the fruits and vegetables on your plate. Do you eat meat? The steak or chicken on your plate was likely processed by undocumented workers. Undocumented workers probably worked in the vineyards that produced your California wine.  Do you travel? Do you stay in hotels? Do you ever wonder who is cleaning your room? Do you eat in restaurants? If you have issues with undocumented workers, I suggest you don't go back into the kitchen. Do you use professional landscapers on your lawn? Have you ever asked the owner of the company about the immigration status of men doing the work? Do you want their jobs? What kind of wage would you want to have these jobs? What kind of working conditions would you settle for to have th...

There is a Classic Calvin & Hobbes comic where Calvin talks about "verbing". He mentions words like access and impact that used to be nouns, but are now also used as verbs (I will still hold that impact is a noun and should stay as such). He commented, "Verbing really weirds the language." Our culture has gone beyond verbing now. The new trend is adjectiving. We are making nouns and verbs into adjectives. Don't believe me? Think of the word genius. I grew up being told genius was a noun indicating a person of far-above-average intelligence. Now people use it as an adjective, as in saying, "That's genius" when they are describing something interesting or clever. You have "genius hacks" to make life easier. The latest popular example of adjectiving is "cringe". For most of my life, cringe was a verb meaning to shrink away from something in disgust or horror. Now cringe is an adjective meaning to invoke those feelings of disgu...