A Pondering Mind

At present, the word “virtually” is, to me, “virtually” the single most disturbing word in the English language – and also, for that matter, in any other language. Check that – actually, it is not “virtually” the single most disturbing word in the English language at present, it “really” is.

This is the word plucked from the “new” cyberlingo by some shrewd advertising people that allows all manner of drug companies, insurance companies, con men, politicians – and anybody else who wants to sell us something – to lie and be legally unaccountable for their lie. It is the word that allows them to make outlandish untrue statements as to the bone fides of whatever it is they are claiming. It is the word currently most prized by lying scumbags everywhere in the world. The newest go-to word for charlatans the world over seeking to make misleading claims about whatever…