Month: October 2013
A Lesson in Antonyms
If the opposite of pro is con, logic dictates that the opposite of progress is Congress. Recent events support the logic. Mark you calendars. We’ll be right back in this same mess in January. I’m not naive enough to believe…
Under the weather
Having been “under the weather” for several weeks, it made me wonder about why we use that phrase as an idiom for illness. A bit of Internet research uncovers two origins. The first from boat travel: When sailors felt seasick,…
