the naming of names

Adam had the first crack at naming things.  I guess he was born with a language then, but likely with no nouns because he had to name everything, likely the verbs too, ok and it seems likely adjectives and adverbs, the rest of the stuff seems to be to be mostly connectors of the first four, so I guess he invented language itself. 

Nouns seem to come first, in the movies when the explorer first comes in contact with the natives he points at something and says its name and then the natives point at something and say its name and the next thing you know they are conversing like neighbors over the wooden fence.

When those things hanging from the telephone pole were just things hanging from a telephone pole I had no way to learn more of them, but when the guy in the watercolor class said transformers, even though I had only a vague idea what they were, I had a name that I could look up things with. One of the first things you learn when learning a new discipline is words for the new tools and materials you will be using, instantly you become a bit of a snob to the unknowing, that is no hammer, that is a hardie (ceramics), that is no telephone pole that is a utility pole.

I am so disappointed that Old Dog did not learn how they replaced one utility pole with another.  What do they do with all those things (ahem, attachments) hanging from the old pole?  How do they yank the old one out, ease the new one in?  Old Dog will be happy to lean that though there are many metal and concrete telephone poles, wood is preferred because you can nail things into it.

I was surprised too that there was not a bigger hullabaloo about Pence's black SUV convoy.  It seems like such a blatant violation.  Oh I know there are many bigger fish to fry, but would it have been so hard for the white shadow to ride behind prancing steeds?  It's just so emblematic of the current administrations credo of we don't have to listen to nobody.

The movement to impeachment is accelerating, Trump is becoming increasingly unhinged, I think the impeachers are counting on the increasing derangement of the prez to alarm people and bring them to the impeachment side, but I'm not so sure that will happen.  I wonder if some republican senators are thinking of jettisoning the gas bag and like the phoenix from the flames launching the clean and pure white shadow from the ashes.

Leaving for Indianapolis tomorrow morning.  I may get in a post Tuesday morning, but if not, I won't be back until Friday.