Philopsychosociopoliticopediaism Explained

Philopsychosociopoliticopedia:

An ongoing glossary of gloss and the science of glossing; a place you can turn for understanding.

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Cut to the chaff, from the syndicated columnist Dik Caveat: This in the area of political glossing and obfuscation and saying absolutely nothing. Nothing. The subject, the object, the premise, etc. could be anything.

Various so called party elders are poised and considering whether or not to weigh in, with their expected moves, while the stand off continues according to people familiar with the situation in both camps. Meanwhile, there are some folks saying, though many reject the view, that this possible string of consensus is helping to drive speculation, which says a lot about the current string of expected and speculated poised standoffs itself.

Clarification of some terms used in Caveat’s commentary. We invite your comments.

weigh in – make your support known; seven hundred pound gorillas can weigh in. So can mosquitoes and ordinary houseflies; although their weight is nearly immeasurable they can be very annoying.

expected move – something anticipated; bowel movements are also anticipated or expected. If they do not arrive, constipation and pain can ensue and you are advised to consult a medical professional.

standoff – meaning stand off from one another; in plumbing a standpipe can be a reservoir for fecal and other matter, solid or liquid, with well established and characteristic odors, and can put one off.

according to people familiar with - (e.g., his or her deepest thoughts), one of many ways of reassuring your reader that you are speaking from your research and factual authority, rather than simply voicing your latest opinion.

poised – standing ready to do something or other; poised for a standoff, for example.

(a) string of – like fish, in or on a line, a group, normally attached at the mouth.

meanwhile - a soft and cozy conjunction, used in bygone days to precede … back at the ranch, now a comforting way to say that something else is going on somewhere in case the point you just made holds no interest whatsoever for your listener or reader.

helping to drive - (support, consensus, public opinion), when the driver is sleepy, or drunk, a prudent offer, whether or not you are so designated.

rejects this view – journalistic segue maintains necessary mode of eternal conflict

reiteration – alternate to repetition, to lessen growing sense of intolerable redundancy, when same of three or at most four possible things have been said long beyond ad nauseum and you look for alternate means of expression and to meet a deadline.

there are some folks saying – a convenient colloquial expression, can apply to any folks you choose, of any number or category of folks and they can say anything you want them to say. Folks can be your daughter, or your brother or your brother’s barber, or if your daughter and barber are friends, and you want to indicate objectivity, can apply to a group of enemies. In other words, folks don’t even have to exist as such or have to have said what you say they said, you only need to imagine or pretend they did, and this is an easy-to-use way of giving them credit. Used for bolstering a weak or non-existent argument or justifying points of view or something you imagine or want to be true.

party elders – horticulturally there are elder trees or bushes and elder berries and in human form, ancient people handy at times to get you in or out of difficult places which can be called jams, but only if they have money or power.

camp - piece of ground or terrain to set up phones, wi-fi, and porta-potties for political purposes many times extending across state lines

whether (or not) – sturdy and flexible transitional expressing ambiguity unambiguously; whether or not you choose to put or not after the whether. (not to be confused homonymally with sports will begin right after the weather or onomotapoeitically with bellwether)) In other words, whether or not you say whether or whether or not does not appreciably change the meaning of whether or whether or not so you can use them interchangeably or not and you will be safe whether or not you use either whether or whether or not, the not being implied in the whether when not stated explicitly. Just another verbal tool at the ready when clarification, or whatever, is your stated intention.

says a lot about – an expression most often, but not always, used to interpret and reiterate your position against an opponent. No matter what your opponent says, you can always say what they said says a lot about, and then you insert what you want what they said to have meant, or at least be perceived to have meant. Particularly effective when speaking of issues of character or principle. In this way you can use your opponents words against him or her, for example; (during the last campaign for President of the U.S. This says a lot about his or her ability to lead, step across the commander-in-chief threshold on day one, go toe-to-toe, or even just tell the truth.

A passing thought did occur to me - to imply that you are drawing from an endless fountain of originality, and not just what you read overnight, a way of saying that among the irrelevant ruminations of your brain, you select only the most prescient and profound to pass on to us, these passing thoughts,

Yesterdays news, news that is already broken, and whirled report
As the politico department of psychosociopoliticopedia we endeavor to avoid unnecessary trips to the dictionary or other etymological sources, if more formalized forms of opinion, not much if any better than our own. Best, we propose, to use what first comes to mind. Letting the chips fall with the hay and rely on you and other unpaid readers and listeners, with relatively unlimited off time in various zones, to form a more perfect editorial union, capacity, slant, and expertise, in the exacting process of sourcing, verification and authentification.

psychosociopoliticopediaism, is only an incurable curse, into the lions mouth of which we have voluntarity thrown ourselves, thus it becomes impossible to simply read any, however small and innoocuous bit of media text without being incessantly snagged by the clichesizing and thread barizational effect, making reading much simpler for you.

Enough said. For the moment.





Upcoming clichés and overused words.

Interregnum- (Weekly Reader, December 12, 1949, the day my father brought home our first televison set, like a sewing machine with a round screen on the end, named for the man who invented television, something like Forest) “Mama, I have learned a new word today, can you surmise what it is? I will give you three surmises”. When someone clicks to his or her wikisaurus and offers for public consumption certain new looking/sounding words there is normally no more than a ten minute interregnum before the word resonates and the clicheizing threadbarization begins.

the luxury of traveling by bus, yes, and particularly if you can sit in the back.

retail politics, (placing another tail, as on chimpanzees, or other laboratory animals, for example ) always at least double or triple the price of wholesale politics which must be bought in large enough quantity to merit a discount, and allow resale at substantial profits, for which you will need a number; there are also factors, brokers and other middlemen to facilitate distribution.

Today’s Spanish word: sin embargo. Look it up! Write it down three times and don’t forget where you put it. That way you will learn it.

with respect to, meaning in reference to with no particle of real respect or honor or admiration, often the contrary, a meaningless , passing and inconsequential thought, soon to be forgotten and the sooner the better.

he would have been toast. Toast is not always black, but in this usage suggests a certain darkness or blackness, some people prefer it, as in marshmallows. Sometimes toast (short for burnt toast) is thrown in trash or compactor, but can be fed to birds, and they actually prefer it to soft bread, and even with some butter in a form of suet. There is white bread, whole wheat, pumpernickel, and English Muffins, which when subjected to the searing effect of flame or electrical heating elements darken and char. charro in Spanish means rustic or glamorous, take your pick; another way of saying … you’re history, e.g. Joan of Arc was toast. As were witches in Salem, Massachusetts and earlier William Tyndale. (For translating the first English Bible from Greek)

hucksteristic and hoodwinkish hooks and horrors of the political harangueatans

appeared to tie - as in Clinton's campaign manager Maggie Williams appeared to tie (Mark) Penn's departure to his meeting with the Colombian government,: a way of removing yourself twice, thus twice removed, from any possible statement of fact. In this case, to avoid saying that Mr. Penn had asked to “resign” because of the Columbian government meeting and otherwise would not have asked to resign”, you tie it. But it was only an appearance. She only appeared to tie, you see, which is very different from an actual tie. The writer could have said, she (Maggie Williams) said it (Mr. Penn’s self firing) was because of Columbian government free trade ties Well, we only have to go to the fabled words of tree frayed (worn and weary from barking up too many trees) commentator Checkie Green (or somebody else if he didn’t actually say this) he needs to quit wearing the ties. They are gawdy and too wide.(ed)

Thin resume – one has resumed eating. Opposite of a fat resume. Anexoric as opposed to anorexic. One being the eating of the other/ A thin resume would then be arriving having been instructed to arrive … having eaten. But still thin. Which can mean wearing clothes better than others, in the example given, continuing to wear clothes better than the other.

Get-over-it-gate – well we take two shots with one bird … like in the old days, if you will. That along with awesome and resonating (redolent is in serious danger) we will get over get over it once and for all. Along with the tail “gate”, celebrating with one big tailgate party.

Editors suggestion: Because putting a gate on a tail or a donkey is fun. We would suggest that a dictionary could be published and placed in the Smithsonian that placed the suffix gate on the behind of every single English word. Aardvarkgate to zucchinigate, if you can imagine what those are. And in the same dictionary we can have an appendix of all the n-words and f-words and any other words that are suspicious. Placing all possible ethic and racial and economic and social and plasto-morphic slurs in one basket. And then we can refer to this volume with paragraph and page numbers when necessary.

Seriously: From now on, and for some time now, when I hit certain words in a sentence I quit reading. Click the X in the upper right hand corner of the screen. X, yes. Not even the Home button. Resonate is such a word. I don’t even want to know who has allowed this cliché thinking person to enter their site or from whence this verbally handicapped man or woman originated … in this case the name was mountaingal so we can assume a couple of things .. okay, here it is:

"I can tell the difference between pandering (Hillary downing shots), charismatic fluff (Obama's rhetoric), and honest-to-goodness conviction. [Edwards] understands where we come from... His 'son of a mill worker' message... resonates with those with similar upbringings." For that reason, Edwards will undoubtedly help bring Democratic voters like "mountaingal" into the Obama fold by November. But again, he was always going to do that. Whether he starts today or in two weeks doesn't make much of a difference.

That said, it's worth wondering …
No, it’s not.

It … could cut both ways: As in …
The tactic could cut both ways: it might tap into the qualms some white, working-class voters in crucial swing states may have about a black candidate, or it could ricochet back against the McCain campaign, which has been accused even by some fellow Republicans of engaging in overly negative campaigning in recent days.

Or it might be completely ignored by both camps, unlikely but possible, depending on which ways things are cut, or it might be ignored by one camp and not the other, or it might be an issue of great importance to some and not all, some say some is a large percentage, some say some is just a few, so you have that, or it might result in bringing back the two dollar bill, or then again, it might not. But,
Hail Mary Cliches … heartbeat away …. Thin resume, as mentioned above. Even wordsmith Maureen Dowd can’t come up with a better adjective to precede resume … how about short, anyway it’s not easy
I think we need a new vocabulary.
The minute I read the word “resonate” I click the X in the upper right hand corner.
Speaking about Sarah Palin in the context of her self proclaimed definition as “pitbull with lipstick”some commentor asks, sincerely no doubt …
who will keep her on a leach.

God she is white trash. Funny things about physical “beauty”. It can become whorish. And you can see it in men as well as women. Not just her, her husband, and for heaven’s sake the alleged husband of her daughter, what is his name, of yes, think blue jeans, Levi, (the people in Alaska name their offsprung after things you can touch and see and ride in and wear) but Mitt Romney, is there not something ugly about these socially incestuated faces. Give me a Jean Reno or Gerard Depardieu any day.


“May be” this is a good couple of words to tuck away and have ready. Ready for you to be able to say anything, like …. Well, let’s start with an old headline by some idiot from long ago … Obama’s Race May Be The Decider. And in this case the headline does not even say in which way his race may decide, in his favor or against. Perfect. Perfect. See how nice it works. You can say anything. May be an elephant will give birth to a rhinoceros. May be. Who can argue? See, what I’m talking about. And, maybe, one day it will happen and you will have been proven correct. May be. Maybe not. But, nothing ventured, nothing gained. Maybe Bill Clinton will divorce Hillary and marry Elizabeth Dole. See, it works. There is nearly nothing you cannot say to express yourself, your opinion, your hallucinations, your LSD trip, your hatred, your square dance partner’s most recent political observation.