Prayers for Times of Trouble in the United States of America
It is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 2021 and the center of our government has been barricaded with concertina wired fences. Prayers have always been associated with this day, but today we are looking for strong prayers for times of trouble in the United States of America. Our country is indeed in...
About Kat The Wonk
The niftiest nerd you’ll ever know, I have a lifelong love of politics, polemics, history, literature, philosophy, world religions, Christian theology, and cult classics like Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (the books not the movie), Princess Bride and Monte Python. I’ll even wonk out in math and the sciences on occasion. I especially like to find parallels in surprising places… and write about them. When I write about them, I like to find delightfully clever ways to say whatever it is I have to say on any subject. Because the written word is delightful!
So please join in with a comment or two as I explore all sorts of subjects!
The World is more Wonderful when you Wonk with me.
Worthy Words...
“Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do.
Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers;
but creative artists very seldom.
I am not, as will be seen, in any sense attacking logic:
I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination.”
G.K Chesterton
Orthodoxy
What is a Wonk?
from Merriam-Webster...
\ ˈwäŋk , ˈwȯŋk \
a person preoccupied with arcane details or procedures in a specialized field
broadly : NERD
// a policy wonk
// a computer wonk
Other Words from Wonk
wonkery \ ˈwäŋ-kə-rē , ˈwȯŋ- \ noun
wonkish \ ˈwäŋ-kish , ˈwȯŋ- \ adjective
wonkishness noun
Synonyms for Wonk
bookworm, dink [slang], dork [slang], geek, grind, nerd, swot [British], weenie