Welcome to this Sunday’s Third Degree: Tough, Brief, Weekly Interrogations on matters public and private that force thinking and response. Today we target: Ps
- Since P and S are the starting letter leaders of roughly 50,000 English words (out of an estimated 175,000 total words), is today’s target anyway perplexing?
- Is the proper plural form of ‘p’, without apostrophe, ps, (pronounced pees) or Ps (pronounced pees) not PS (Pronounced pee-es)?
- Does the Third Degree penchant for ‘p” words persist, recalling the “Prickly Problems” series of last month, and how pricks, big and little, could and can be painful?
- Given all the painful, perilous, even paralyzing, news in the news, is it appropriate to pursue ‘p’ words (thereby reaffirming their position of beginning 25,000 words)?
- Isn’t it the purpose of The Third Degree to put forth inquiring propositions that pick at us on an individual and a societal basis?
- Given plethoric proportion of the ‘p’ word menu, should you expect pumpkins and poltergeists, paychecks, peers, pundits, and politics, plus preferences and proclivities to be pumped and pilloried in coming weeks and, particularly, the PC pack of professorial phonies and followers?
- Will the possibility, perhaps probability, of, at minimum, social media peril, panic and paralysis be pervasive but will necessary policy purging promoting personal (and public) pragmatism and purpose prevail?
- Should hopes be pinned on a pipe dream or on such a plan? Is it likely that that plan will produce some of the fearsome four Ps of our title yet purify with the balm of potential in the pursuit?
Socrates reminds: “The unexamined life is not worth living”. The answers and actions are yours.