Marilyn Perry's Polemical Ponderings
Marilyn Perry's Polemical Ponderings
This is the header description for the section of this website that contains polemical missives.
The Word Problem Has A Serious Problem. The problem that has beset the word problem is that a significant portion of the American population is, and has been trying for quite a while, to erase the word - Problem - from American verbal and written communication! The attempted erasure of the word “Problem”, replacing it with the linguistically and grammatically incorrect word “Issue”, is a serious problem.
As Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has taken up the 1968 song…
More often than one might expect, as life's gears grind against each other, the age old adage, “…
It is extremely difficult to resist the urge to gripe now and again. It seems as though there is a lot to gripe about these days. However, might…
It's fascinating to observe divergence into meta discussion within discussion and conversation, to observe and be aware of the phenomenon,…
Once the cow's been milked there's no squirting the cream back up her udder.
Keep calm and carry on.
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
It is good to know, how not to know, how much one is knowing.
In like a lion, out…
Today you are you, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who's more youer than you.
Never let them see you sweat!
An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
Only those who dare to fail miserably can ever achieve greatly.
