‘Tis the Season for Treason

‘Tis the Season for Treason

The biggest traitor in human history is not Judas Iscariot, Benedict Arnold, Guy Fawkes, Vidkun Quisling, Brutus (et tu, Brutus?), Tokyo Rose, Kim Philby, Robert Hanssen, or Aldrich Ames, as infamous as each of them was—and remains to this day—in their own right....
A Bittersweet EpicentRx Story

A Bittersweet EpicentRx Story

What is the most addictive drug in the universe? If you ask us (and some others especially post Valentine’s Day), the answer isn’t love, sex, gambling, heroin, cocaine, nicotine, caffeine, methamphetamines, or alcohol. Our money is on…chocolate. Yes, chocolate. Don’t...
EpicentRx Word of the Week: Caliginous

EpicentRx Word of the Week: Caliginous

“You dare to come to me for a heart, do you? You clinking, clanking, clattering collection of caliginous junk!” – Oz to the Tin Man from The Wizard of Oz. Caliginous adjective kuh-LIJ-uh-nos caliginosity, caliginousness noun caliginously adverb Definition: :...
Measure 12 Times and Cut Once

Measure 12 Times and Cut Once

The expression, measure twice, cut once (or, more humorously, measure once, cuss twice), means that care taken in advance will prevent the commission of later errors. A related Russian proverb is “measure seven times cut once,” which counsels even more careful...
It’s Both a Floor Wax AND a Dessert Topping

It’s Both a Floor Wax AND a Dessert Topping

So said zany spokesman, Chevy Chase, in an equally zany Saturday Night Live (SNL) skit from the 1970s about an edible floor wax product called Shimmer, shown above, which he uses to reconcile a disputatious married couple, by spraying it on Gilda Radner’s floor mop...