Really Good Political Insults I'd Like to See:

Towards more colorful speech, the Elizabethans had real panache when throwing down the gauntlet. So, take off the GLOVES, for Heaven's Sake! If You Are Going For Gusto in this last Week Before the Election, At Least have the Courage to Choose a REALLY GOOD INSULT!
Such were the days of good William's time.....

I say, Be Bold or go Home.

Choose one from each column:

Thou...

1.
artless
bawdy
beslubbering
bootless
churlish
cockered
clouted
craven
currish
dankish
dissembling
droning
errant
fawning
fobbing
foul smelling
froward
frothy
gleeking
goatish
gorbellied
impertinent
jarring
loggerheaded
lumpish
mammering
mangled
mewling
paunchy
poisonous
pribbling
puking
puny
qualling
rank
reeky
roguish
ruttish
saucy
spleeny
spongy
surly
tottering
unmuzzled
vain
venomed
villainous
warped
wayward
weedy
yeasty
2.
base-court
bat-fowling
beef-witted
beetle-headed
boil-brained
clapper-clawed
clay-brained
common-kissing
crook-pated
dismal-dreaming
dizzy-eyed
doghearted
dread-bolted
earth-vexing
elf-skinned
fat-kidneyed
fen-sucked
flap-mouthed
fly-bitten
folly-fallen
fool-born
full-gorged
guts-griping
half-faced
hasty-witted
hedge-born
hell-hated
idle-headed
ill-breeding
ill-nurtured
infectious
knotty-pated
milk-livered
motley-minded
onion-eyed
plume-plucked
pottle-deep
pox-marked
reeling-ripe
rough-hewn
rude-growing
rump-fed
shard-borne
sheep-biting
spur-galled
swag-bellied
tardy-gaited
tickle-brained
toad-spotted
unchin-snouted
weather-bitten
3.
apple-john
baggage
barnacle
bladder
boar-pig
bugbear
bum-bailey
canker-blossom
clack-dish
clotpole
coxcomb
codpiece
death-token
dewberry
flap-dragon
flax-wench
flirt-gill
foot-licker
fustilarian
giglet
gudgeon
haggard
harpy
hedge-pig
horn-beast
hugger-mugger
joithead
knave
lewdster
lout
maggot-pie
malt-worm
mammet
measle
minnow
miscreant
moldwarp
mumble-news
nut-hook
pigeon-egg
pignut
puttock
pumpion
ratsbane
scut
skainsmate
strumpet
varlot
vassal
whey-face
wagtail

Here, please use this as an example:
"Linda McMahon! Thou are a Clotted, Pox-Marked Foot-Licker!"

(apologies to the website from where I found this, I will find the citation and apply it soon.)

Where is Away?

Plastic, plastic everywhere,
----but not a grain of sand.

I just read a remarkable essay regarding the toilet bowl of plastic in the northern Pacific and it made me think of several things all at once; from a line in "The Graduate," to having sand that's not sand- but bits of hard plastic chips on the beaches in Hawaii, to all the bags, wrap, bowls, and other items made of petro-chemicals in my house--all the plastics we use on a daily basis. Last year we switched from little sandwich bags to using sandwich sized plastic sandwich boxes. Last year I campaigned against some ignorant people on why plastic bottles of water wasn't a good idea for our town's 8th grade graduation reception (we had a new school, great water, and why buy water in plastic anyways?) (it fell on very deaf and ignorant ears, but I tried). So now I'm thinking I would really like to get some refrigerator bowls to replace the Rubbermaid & Tupperware ones I currently use.

I thought about my girlfriend Kathy and her mom hiking in Thompson, CT - and Kathy commenting about being able to figure out the habits of her fellow townspeople just by the trash she and her mom collected by the side of her road. They even found a plastic toilet seat thrown over the edge of the ravine. I called them "Garb-archaeologists."

I made a mental note to put glass bowls on my shopping list and to throw the plastic bowls away, but caught myself smirking inside my head about that old phrase "throw something away." Gotta change that way of thinking.

Where is "away," anyways?