A Basket of Deplorable Items To Share With You
Several small things ...
First, our language has expanded with my coining of a new word: “Expertism.”
At the suggestion of my pastor and his wife, I have memorialized the word on Urban Dictionary and, as I type, the expertists at UD are reviewing my entry and will grace the world with the word’s presence should they see fit. Nobody else had coined the word, and I created it during the Expert-made Covid pandemic. It seems a darned good thing but you be the expert.
EXPERTISM: An exaggerated trust in experts to the detriment of one’s own critical thinking; a neediness for experts to validate a course of action, else that action should be suspect; a dependence on experts that suggests a lack of confidence in oneself; a worldview that is over-reliant on experts.
EXPERTISTS: Those who affirm expertism.
(You’re welcome.)
I received this email today with the subject line: “ABOLISH THE PSC”
Your continuing efforts to expose the dangers of an unaccountable and out-of-touch anachronism of a bygone era are worthy of high praise from each Louisianian holding on for dear life to their beloved state.
Through your yeoman's work we are all better informed and prepared to meet Leviathan in any form it takes.
Best Wishes in all you do.
Their every characterization of the Public Service Commission is true. The 103 year old fossil is ready to be put out to pasture. (Yes, I know, mixed metawhatevers.)
I’m grateful for the thoughtfulness and appreciate the support. Sometimes it seems like I’m the only person in the state who is kept up at night wondering when one more transgressive Marxist is going to shut down the power plants.
Just when you thought it was safe for women to swim in the women’s pool, the United Nations entity for gender equality publishes this gem:
To hear the UN, it’s BOYS who “can do anything,” even becoming GIRLS. But don’t be distracted by the women’s empowerment group at the UN. Boys are girls, girls are boys, and you’re just a reptile-brained confused mess of 20th century patriarchy if you can’t figure it all out, you bumpkin. Go off and “reflect and learn” and get back to us when you have.
To make it all make sense, we suggest you stand on one leg, chew gum, mumble the alphabet backwards and rub your belly.
That seems far more productive a way to support girls and women than anything the UN women’s group has offered.
Or better yet, level the UN building and salt the earth where it stood.
The very fact you had no idea the 14th of July is International Non-Binary People’s Day is all the proof nobody needs to know you really are a reptile-brained confused mess… so complain to the expertists at the UN, not to me!
Louisiana writer Greg Hilburn asks a ridiculous question here. Perhaps an expert can explain this to thick-headed conservatives…
Note: When they do this count, they include any living body in a uniform, or even out of uniform. The actual number of active police officers in the city is fewer than 900.
“Is that good or bad?”
My personal work schedule is loosening up just a bit, allowing me some time and mental energy to write again for you all. I’m continually stunned at the number of you who have shown awful judgement: you’ve subscribed to this Substack. Surely you have far better things to do, but who am I to criticize you for how you waste your time?
In 8 short months I’ve discovered a passion and a purpose and because of your support I’m not alone in my effort to make our city and our state a more livable place, a safer place, and, hopefully a more sane place.
I’m going nowhere, though I have to take some breaks now and then to pay the piper and keep the lights on (even if the transgressive Marxist expertists are trying hard to shut them off.)
It’s a Sunday night! Get your rest, dream sweet dreams, and have a wonderful week.
Until we meet again, look for any opportunity to write “expertism” and know that a handyman on a high-falutin’ mission created a word you’d never been able to use before.
So many of you take a moment and reach out to me, you affirm me on this mission and encourage me when I need it the most. In all seriousness, I’m greatly humbled by it all. I will give my all to you all; you have my promise!
The Well of Gratitude Runs Deep
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Forgive my poor judgement, but I will continue to waste my time (what's left of it) following your commentary. Good luck with the UB entry. It is needed.