I have been mostly retired for about the last three years. Unfortunately, I am not doing what I want with my retirement due to the confines of caring for my invalid wife. Still, I am making the best of it. I do not have near as much time in retirement as I thought I would and sometimes wonder where the time goes. A lot of my time goes to blogging. I have blogged for about twelve years, now. My blog, called A Disgruntled Republican , takes a lot of my time. Much of that time is simply devoted to being informed. One thing I have found in retirement is time to read at a more leisurely pace. I have read National Review most of my adult life, but always was behind on the reading and never took the time to read the "other" parts of the magazine. I would read the news analysis and feature articles, but seldom read the humor column or the book reviews or movie reviews. I don't think I had ever read until recently the "Arts and Manners" section....
Word of the day: perfidy Context: The president clearly meant that Comey had been falsely depicting him as complicit in Russia's perfidy , but Democrats pounced, spinning Trup's statements as admission .... Source: National Review ; April, 22, 2019; Mueller's Folly ; page 19. Perfidy: per·fi·dy [ˈpərfədē] NOUN, deceitfulness; untrustworthiness. Comment: This is another word that I should have known but could not define. It is not a new word but I could not define it.
Context One person enjoying these negotiations from the sidelines is Mitch McConnell. The Senate Minority Leader described the Democratic dilemma as lose-lose, with the Democrats either looking hopelessly ineffectual or dangerously liberal. ‘It’ll have a serious negative impact if they don’t pass it, and it’ll have a serious negative impact if they do pass it,’ he said recently with more than a hint of schadenfreude. From a Spectator email. [ˈSHädənˌfroidə] NOUN pleasure derived by someone from another person's misfortune. "a business that thrives on schadenfreude" · [more] synonyms: delight · pleasure · happiness · joy · joyfulness · gladness · elation · euphoria · exhilaration · cheerfulness · amusement · mirth
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