What The Inauguration Taught Us.

The author of this august journal has nothing more to offer on the Trump debacle. Indeed, he, for it is a he, is as tired of it as you probably are. Perhaps we have already gone too far when the press conjugate on the possibility of a Secret Service agent having prosthetic hands to better grasp whatever weaponry is harboured in his trousers.
No more
We are going to build a great wall. Yes, we are. I build tremendous walls. It’ll be great.
However, Fryday is close to the Trump Camp, through no fault of its own, and it is our understanding that there is soon to be revealed a body of correspondence between the 45th President of the United States and God. It appears that He, God, has much to learn about The Art of the Deal.
But, that is for the future and Fryday has no control over that. What it does control, however, is the present and the recent past. And the recent past, the inauguration, has presented us with one photo that Fryday feels to be more poignant, more telling, than the millions of others that captured the nadir of reality television. This one photograph must seer our minds and forever brand our history.
Look upon it and weep.
Weep upon what the world has lost and what awaits.

There is class and there is not.

A Vainglorious Time

Tomorrow the United States inaugurates its 45th President.
I am lost for words.
So, I am turning this Fryday over to two eminent brothers who were never lost for a word and indeed were made of and for words.
They are George and Charles Merriam who in 1843 founded G&C Merriam Co. which, after the brothers bought A Compendius Dictionary of the English Language from the estate of Noah Webster, would publish the much lauded and venerable Merriam-Webster Dictionary. The first publication was in 1845.
I turned to their dictionary for two reasons. First, its American origins and, second, I wanted the exact definition of one of my favourite words—a word I despaired of ever having an opportunity or a reason to use.
Until now.
Until the 45th President of the United States.
The word is vainglorious.
According to the Webster brothers, it means, boastful.
Exactly.
Now, there may be Fryday readers of a certain persuasion who do not think vainglorious a fair or accurate description of the 45th President. Maybe even that it is disrespectful. I respect that view. However, for the rest of us here is a little game inspired by the Merriam-Webster Dictionary. The Dictionary gives us a long list of synonyms and words related to vainglorious. I have replicated the list below. The game is for you to tick off how many you think aptly and accurately describe the incoming President. If you are feeling particularly studious, you might even send me a number.
Happy hunting.

assured, biggety (or biggity), bigheaded, complacent, consequential, egoistic (also egoistical), egotistic (or egotistical), important, overweening, pompous, prideful, proud, self-conceited, self-important, self-opinionated, self-satisfied, smug, stuck-up, swellheaded, vain, conceited, blusterous, blustery, boastful, bombastic, braggart, bragging, braggy, cocky, swaggering; arrogant, assumptive, bumptious, cavalier, chesty, disdainful, fastuous, haughty, high-and-mighty, high-hat, huffy, lofty, lordly, masterful, peremptory, pontifical, self-asserting, self-assertive, snobbish, snobby, snooty, supercilious, superior, toplofty (also toploftical), uppish, uppity; domineering, high-handed, imperious; highfalutin (also hifalutin), holier-than-thou, pretentious; overconfident, presuming, presumptuous; confident, self-assured, self-confident; self-adulatory, self-congratulatory, self-contented, self-gratulatory; self-applauding, self-dramatizing, self-glorifying, self-promoting; self-affected, self-centered, self-engrossed, selfish; condescending, patronizing.