Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!

Don’t you love the word “debunk”? Its cheerfully aggressive sound is inseparable from its sense. The second syllable, bunk!, seems to leap down from the Latinate first syllable, de, into a pugnacious, vernacular fray, while its definition claims higher ground, wielding Truth over Bunk. Because the term “debunk” is common in the UFO discourses I … Continue reading Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!