Friendships begin with liking or gratitude — roots that can be pulled up. George Eliot (1819-1880)

Walloping Definition: (noun) A sound thrashing or defeat. Synonyms: Debacle, Drubbing, Thrashing, Trouncing, Whipping, Slaughter Usage: The tournament was an embarrassment, with our team receiving a walloping from the opponent.

Sue Taylor Grafton (1940) A onetime screenwriter, Grafton began writing detective novels after a bitter and protracted custody battle left her daydreaming about the vengeful crimes she would have liked to commit but could not. As a means of escape, […]

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling. Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)

Pauperism Definition: (noun) A state of extreme poverty or destitution. Synonyms: Indigence, Penury, Need Usage: Two children begged for money on the subway, and their pauperism weighed heavily on the minds of the train’s passengers.

Chairman Crowley Statement on Dr. Vivek Murthy (Queens, NY) House Democratic Caucus Chairman Joe Crowley (D-NY) released the following statement today after the announcement that the Trump administration would cut Dr. Vivek Murthy’s four-year term as U.S. Surgeon General short. […]

Apostasy Definition: (noun) Abandonment of one’s religious faith, a political party, one’s principles, or a cause. Synonyms: Defection, Renunciation Usage: He had been very devoted to his cause, so when he declared his apostasy to the crowd, there was an […]

Max Planck (1858) Planck was an influential German physicist whose work on black body radiation earned him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918. He also discovered the elementary quantum of action, now known as Planck’s constant. As the influential […]

I’ve been a great deal happier … since I have given up thinking about what is easy and pleasant, and being discontented because I couldn’t have my own will. Our life is determined for us—and it makes the mind very […]