Too Much To Analyze

The world seems to be changing at warp speed - or ludicrous speed, as in the movie "Spaceballs". In fact, so much of the information that comes along seems just plain ludicrous. Period.

As readers may know, I love my Merriam-Webster's Eleventh Edition Collegiate Dictionary and I visited it, once again, to locate a definitive definition of ludicrous. Below is what I found.

lu-di-crous 1: amusing or laughable through obvious absurdity, incongruity, exaggeration or eccentricity. 2: meriting derisive laughter or scorn as absurdly inept, false, or foolish

Below is what I see.

• The Floridian pastor of a very small congregation has garnered too much air time and print space and has been given a ludicrous amount of media attention which fermented into a world-wide hornet's nest.
• Moderate alcohol consumption - bad/no alcohol good v.s. moderate alcohol consumption - good/no alcohol questionable
• Bad bacon v.s. the now 'good' bacon;
• bgh - bovine growth hormone - very bad. Oops, it is naturally present in all bovines.
• Caffeine v.s. no caffeine
• Bad butter - good margarine. Oops. Bad margarine - good butter
• Bare feet - bad v.s. expensive shoes -good. Oops. Now it is no shoes - good v.s. expensive shoes not-so-good
• Bad public behavior - just plain bad v.s. bad public behavior good-for-the-career
• Google past v.s. Google "Instant". Leave well-enough alone.
• Stating the obvious v.s. obfuscation. Do 'they' think 'we're' stupid?

My apologies for my inner curmudgeon making an appearance today. I need to see the Three Musketeers.

Ancora imparo