Author: dd-b

Trickle-Up Economics

If the problem with the economic system is too much bad consumer debt, let’s try addressing it at the source. If all of us could make our mortgage payments, car payments, and credit card payments, there wouldn’t be a problem.   If the government must intervene, let’s have it intervene by giving those people the money to meet their obligations. And let the invisible hand take care of the business world.

And any bailout plan must most certainly contain large dollops of oversight.  Which is not just a euphemism for things being “overlooked”.

The Society for the Restoration of Lost Positives

There is clearly not enough information about this important group on the web, so I will do my duty as a content provider.

The organization predates my birth, but they do not seem to be getting the press their important efforts to improve our language deserve.

And besides, I need a header article for the tidbits I’m expecting to tag as “lost positive”.

I presume, in this crowd, that we’ve all encountered “kempt”, “sheveled”, and “ept”, the (lost) positive forms of “unkempt”, “dissheveled”, and “inept”. But don’t worry, mostly I won’t mention the common negative form; half the fun is figuring it out.

“Flammable” is a rather more complicated case.