It’s a factoid only Scrabble devotees might know, but there are more than 1,000 words that end in ‘ism’, which indicates a specific practice, system, or philosophy. Herewith two additions, one of which has a less than slim chance at success, the other I just invented as a hopefully viable alternative.… Read the rest
When it was written, there was no obvious connection to the Beatle’s profitable lyric “money can’t buy me love” and the Paul the Apostle’s warning that “the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil’. In a coincidence you couldn’t make up, however, money is the basis of an unholy link-up of two reprehensible regimes and an easing of a record-breaking enmity between two others.… Read the rest