Do you gerrymander?

 

                                    One person, one vote

So far, we have had Twitter, Tweet, Facebook, and perhaps-more big industries-to-come. Google? Their business practices came back to bite them and their days of revealing, deleting, gerrymandering  (an interesting word and meaning) I have never understood. The definition is a silent, quiet word, one that isn’t tossed around casually. Why, I wonder.

[ˌjerēˈmandəriNG]

NOUN

gerrymandering (noun) · jerrymandering (noun)

1. the manipulation of an electoral constituency's boundaries so as to favor one party or class:

"gerrymandering protects the party lines and keeps bad incumbents in power"

ORIGIN

early 19th century: from gerrymander + -ing.

Here are some synonyms:

 manipulating, cheating, pettifoggery, rigging, corruption, falsifying, manipulation, fraud, and more.

What struck me is that there are no synonyms below, just antonyms:

honor, oath, justice, integrity, honesty, sincerity, truth, and more.

Basically, being called a gerrymander is a negative thing as part of its meaning.

Being called truthful is a positive thing as part of it definition.

Are you a gerrymander or honest? Pettifoggery or sincerity? Manipulate or guide? 

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Wednesday Words: Gwynneth

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Everything about Gwynneth was superb, absolutely superb.  Former model, elegant, able to pull together magnificent events with seeming ease.  Superb.

Then her world came plummeting about her.  She discovered Geoff, her successful and wealthy husband, between Gynneth’s own satin sheets with her middle-aged maid.  “It’s not what you think…it won’t happen again…I swear this is the first time I have ever…”

But “it” did happen many times, each time with Geoff plying lie after lie.

At the final time, Gwynneth threw his expensive collection of exquisite art at Geoff, as he tried to bluster his way from her rage.  Holding Geoff’s favorite Rodin bronze and venting her anger, Gwynneth brought it crashing down on his head.   It was a glancing blow that knocked him cold. 

Gwynneth made her decision quickly—faster than a lie from her cheating husband.

When Geoff came to consciousness, he saw two pair of glittering eyes looking down at him: His recently disenfranchised business partner, Joe, and Gwynneth.  “You spurious bastard!” Joe snarled.  “You stole everything from me!

Gwynneth purred in her nasal Texas twang as she tugged on the chains around Geoff’s ankles.  “You won’t lie your way out of this one!”

Together Joe and Gynneth released the hold on the heavy chains, sending a screaming Geoff to his watery death.

Geoff now lies for eternity.

Source: messersmith

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