Tag: go nuclear
Does not compute
Wednesday Email: Does not compute Well, that was interesting! Britain now has its third prime minister in less than two months! It’s beginning to look a lot like Japan. It looks like the US is also in a period of constant leadership change. These rapid changes are occurring because, for those leaders, the reality of…
Heads will roll
Phrase: Heads will roll There is no doubt about it. The phrase heads will roll sounds quite gruesome when you think about it. I become nostalgic when I hear it, though. During my childhood, when the five of us kids all got going creating castles with sofa cushions or playing wargames inside on a dreary…
Back into a corner
Idiom: Back into a corner What a difference 50 days make. On February 24th, Vladimir Putin was preparing victory parades for a puppet Ukrainian regime after running over the Ukrainian military and Zelenskyy government. He thought the Ukrainians would be quickly backed into a corner and forced to surrender. Sometimes things don’t go exactly as…
The nature of the beast
Phrase: The nature of the beast Are you thinking about how to be happy? I bet you are thinking about it now because I’ve asked you. Here’s a little secret. If you want to be happy, you have to learn to accept things. Life is full of stuff that we don’t like, that gets on our…
Go nuclear
Idiom: Go nuclear While at first blush, the idea of going nuclear may be an extremely delicate topic for some Japanese, the term itself is more of a euphemism for extremism. If you go nuclear, you become outraged and use force to the full extent of being extreme and perhaps in an irrational way. Imagine…
