Monkey's Dad's definitions

social dis-tance

Disrespect for the need for social distancing, conveyed by inadequate intervals.

Nobody was dying, the so-called 'virus' was elite liberal propaganda, and to show his feeling about social dis-tance he was marching shoulder-to-shoulder with other "Reopen America" geniuses, waving swastikas and Trump banners, blocking ambulances, breathing in each others' faces.

by Monkey's Dad April 20, 2020

brashionale

An arrogant and thoughtless excuse for taking risks during coronaviral stay-at-home isolation orders.

"I figured what the hell, there's nobody out, and the liquor store wouldn't be deemed an 'essential service' if they didn't want you to go there", he coughed, his brashionale hard to understand through his labored breathing.

by Monkey's Dad April 5, 2020

Mayor Muriel Bowser

Mayor of Washington, DC.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser renamed a section of 16th street, in front of the White House, “Black Lives Matter Plaza” and had the slogan painted on the pavement in massive yellow letters to honor demonstrators protesting the killing of George Floyd by police.

by Monkey's Dad June 8, 2020

vaccillation

Uncertainty about the value and wisdom of getting a vaccination.

Most people she knew were getting it, but she'd heard one story of a child being paralyzed for life, and she was in a state of vaccillation about whether to allow the immunization for her daughter.

by Monkey's Dad April 11, 2020

Darnella Frazier

The young woman whose eyewitness video of the George Floyd killing by former police officer Derek Chauvin in Minneapolis on May 25, 2020, became a crucial artifact of American history. She was awarded an honorary Pulitzer Prize on June 11, 2021.

Only 17 at the time, Darnella Frazier is to the Floyd killing what Abraham Zapruder was to the assassination of John F. Kennedy, an accidental bystander with a camera, a vital witness to an historic moment. Ms. Frazier's video of the arrest, which recorded Floyd's plea - I can't breathe - as Chauvin knelt on his neck for more than 9 minutes, sparked protests across the country. A witness at Chauvin's murder trial, Ms. Frazier expressed regret for not physically confronting Mr. Chauvin. “It’s been nights I stayed up apologizing and apologizing to George Floyd for not doing more and not physically interacting and not saving his life,” Ms. Frazier said.

Darnella Frazier, who was 17 when she recorded George Floyd's murder in Minneapolis last year, was awarded a special citation by the Pulitzer Board. Her video played a major role in igniting a global protest movement against police violence, and was used as evidence in the trial of Floyd's killer.

Pulitzer officials who give out the prestigious prize in journalism and the arts said Frazier's recording highlighted "the crucial role of citizens in journalists' quests for truth and justice."

by Monkey's Dad June 12, 2021

logocide

To kill a word, by misuse, overuse, or, like, just, like, whatever.

I always liked the word 'like'. It indicated positive feelings about someone or something, signified similarity. But when the formerly articulate Jon Stewart, in the first episode of his new show, said "And I'm like, what?" in a stream of verbiage strewn with meaningless 'likes', it was a sign that 'like' had suffered the final act of logocide, as if the dying word, zombified, had finally infected every last logocidal person, regardless of age, education, you know, and I'm like, damn.

by Monkey's Dad October 6, 2021

uncertain future

The truth, or illusion, that we cannot know what will happen next.

She felt the weight of her uncertain future, more than ever, unable to predict or imagine the world which awaited.

by Monkey's Dad May 12, 2020