I recently posted a small list to Youtube that read:

“I have been on a marathon Terence-listening jag recently and realized he has some favorite words in his quiver that he pulls out regularly. I started keeping track of them. Top on my list are “adumbration ”, “casuistry”, and “concrescence”. Other expressions include “gurus geisheis, roshis and rishis” and “yawning grave”. If you can think of others, I’d love to hear about them. Thanks in advance for humoring me!”

adumbration: to vaguely foreshadow

casuistry: “the use of clever but unsound reasoning, especially in relation to moral questions; sophistry.”

concrescence: the coalescence or growing together of parts originally separate.

(complete list here) NEWEST ENTRY: malarky @Erik ” meaningless talk; nonsense”

Richard David Wolff is an American Marxian economist, known for his work on economic methodology and class analysis. He is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and currently a Visiting Professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs of the New School in New York. Wikipedia

by Shawn Hamilton, Oct. 2016

“We could become the first country to go fascist through free elections.” William Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

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Forensic psychiatrist Bandy X. Lee explains the outgoing president’s pathological appeal and how to wean people from it By Tanya Lewis on January 11, 2021

“The violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol Building last week, incited by President Donald Trump, serves as the grimmest moment in one of the darkest chapters in the nation’s history. Yet the rioters’ actions—and Trump’s own role in, and response to, them—come as little surprise to many, particularly those who have been studying the president’s mental fitness and the psychology of his most ardent followers since he took office. “

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