Great one post
I think your third point should be number one on the list.
3) As far as the viability of him getting anything done... this is a crap shoot…ie. Pink sheet stock. Anyone with illusions otherwise need to get out of trading these stocks. Telling me that he has a checkered past is pointless. If Brian was more successful, etc., we wouldn’t have been buying his stock at sub-penny level in the first place.
Awesome verb too
bloviate
blo·vi·ate /'blo?vi?e?t/ [bloh-vee-eyt]
–verb (used without object), -at·ed, -at·ing.
to speak pompously.
Word Origin & History
1857, Amer.Eng., a Midwestern word for "to talk aimlessly and boastingly; to indulge in 'high falutin'," according to Farmer (1890), who seems to have been the only British lexicographer to notice it. He says it was based on blow (v.) on the model of deviate , etc. It seems to have been felt as outdated slang already by late 19c. ("It was a leasure for him to hear the Doctor talk, or, as it was inelegantly expressed in the phrase of the period, 'bloviate....' " ["Overland Monthly," San Francisco, 1872, describing a scene from 1860]), but it enjoyed a revival early 1920s during the presidency of Warren G. Harding, who wrote a notoriously ornate and incomprehensible prose (e.e. cummings eulogized him as "The only man, woman or child who wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical errors") at which time the word took on its connection with political speech; it faded again thereafter, but, with its derivative, bloviation, it enjoyed a revival in the 2000 U.S. election season that continued through the era of blogging.
Warren G. Harding invented the word "normalcy," And the lesser-known "bloviate," meaning, one imagines, To spout, to spew aimless verbiage.
John Ashbery (b. 1927), U.S. poet, critic. "Qualm."
