Yearly Archives: 2008

Word time: conundrum

conundrum a riddle, the answer to which involves a pun or play on words, as What is black and white and read all over? A newspaper. A paradoxical, insoluble, or difficult problem; a dilemma. A kind of riddle based upon some fanciful or fantastic resemblance between things quite unlike; a puzzling question, of which the

Word Time: panacea

panacea a remedy for all disease or ills; cure-all. an answer or solution for all problems or difficulties: His economic philosophy is a good one, but he tries to use it as a panacea. an ancient Greek goddess of healing. Source: dictionary.reference.com http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/panacea

The end of the world

It’s the end of the world as we know it. Actually, it’s the end of the world, period! Scientists and religious leaders all agree planet Earth has fewer than 400 days before it splits apart like a crushed cue ball and ceases to exist. How do people react? When there’s a year left, what are