Good Words Gone Bad

Green

• In the past this was the color of Kermit, the jolly green giant, and grass in the summer. Now its meaning has changed to represent a movement that grew out of the fertile (remember what you mix with soil to make it fertile) imagination of Al Gore in his quest to blot out failed presidential candidacy. I will give him credit for his hand in creating the largest global scam in history. Of course I am referring to carbon credits. If you are wealthy, and enough of a scoundrel, you can now spend money to sooth your conscience while polluting in whichever way you please. Leave the real work to the little people. The GREEN movement can also be used (and it has been used) to intimidate business by threatening to boycott their products unless they purchase carbon credits. I think they call this extortion.

Gay

• In the past, according to Roget’s International Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases 1922, the synonyms of gay were genteel; well-bred, well-mannered, well-behaved, well-spoken; gentlemanlike, gentlemanly; ladylike; civil, polite…. In the present, according to Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition 1995, the synonyms for gay are; lacking in moral restraint: abandoned, dissipated, dissolute, fast, incontinent, licentious, profligate, rakish, unbridled, unconstrained, uncontrolled, ungoverned,...

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