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An Avocation

As many of you are aware, writing blogs is only an avocation of mine. In addition an avocation to my blog-writing avocation is checking out Merriam-Webster podcasts. I know … “how boring!” Be that as it may, today I came across two interesting words that reminded me immediately of Joe Biden’s presidency.

Those two unusual words were “estivate” and “ambisinister.”

Let’s take “estivate” first. It means “to spend the hot dry season in an inactive, dormant state.” In other words “estivate” is to the summer, as “hibernate” is to the winter. As summer is now ending, the question is whether or not J.B. will come out of his dormant state … will he come out of his estivation? Will he actually stay in Washington when the next crisis appears or will he cower back to his home in Delaware, or even worse go to a Delaware beach? Of course by that time his “estivation” my not be an issue, as he may well be into his “hibernation” phase!

“Ambisinister” means “clumsy and unskillful with both hands.” Whereas ambidextrous means “able to use both hands equally well,” it also means “unusually skillful; facile.” In that same light, “ambisinistrous” implies that the individual is clumsy and far from adept at just about everything. 

Is it any wonder that J.B. popped into my mind with these two unusual words? For the last eight months, when J.B hasn’t been dormant, he has plainly just been screwing up everything (Pipeline, border, economy and inflation, Afghanistan, and now his vaccine mandates).

Ergo, J.B is both coming out of estivation and is truly ambisinistrous!

9/29/21

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