Lazy Bastard

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Today’s WORD on Journalism 
Afflicting the comfortable since 1995
Monday,  December 12, 2015 

Hiatus

Dear WORDistas:

You know, I have always checked out of the WORD when classes are over for Christmas Break. And even though I am retired, and really have no actual excuses, my wife reminds me that I should take some time off. She is trying to save me from a heart attack. God love her. In this time of Trumpification and other obscenities that raise my blood pressure, I think she has a good point.

So I have sent the WORD off to St. Mumbles Home for the Terminally Verbose and Insanely Fixated on Politics for the “holidays.” We’ll be back and renewed in January.

Maybe February.

Or, you know, don’t hold your breath.

— Dr. Ted, Professor of Formerly Interesting But Now Totally Disgusting Stuff, Trinidad, California

“It is well for people who think to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean.” —Luther Burbank

“Words are sacred. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones, in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.” —Tom Stoppard