…No Charge. Still at Large

Good morning, Americans.

The secret word today is “charged”.

I love this word. I’m like the charge’ d affaires of the word “charged.”

The word “charged” is charged with effect, like an engine is super-charged; like a dish is charged with flavor, a line of poetry charged with meaning.

We exist in a highly charged atmosphere, do we not?

How wonderful, to acquire a thing -anything- free of charge!

In the fifties, ad agencies used a cartoon image of a general on a horse urging consumers to “Charge it!”

(Of course one is occasionally over-charged, and will perhaps wish to detonate a depth-charge, but the charges may be reversed according to the fine print on the credit card statement by dialing an 800 number.)

This may be accomplished electronically in a process involving electricity, with its highly charged particles.

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“Charged” has the most wonderful synonyms!:

breathtaking, electric, electrifying, exciting, exhilarating, exhilarative, galvanic, galvanizing, hair-raising, heart-stopping, inspiring, intoxicating, kicky- [not sure of that one!], mind-bending, mind-blowing, mind-boggling, rip-roaring, rousing, stimulating, stirring, thrilling-

And yet.

Headlines tell me that, despite mounting evidence of conspiracy and crimes, and intense public concern, the former president still has not been…

…charged.

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