This is always an interesting subject to me, the juxtaposition of meaning that becomes popular in culture and sometimes leads to intergenerational confusion; like the senior lamenting about the youth saying "Ahh kids today."

When I was growing up back in the 60's a new word came on the scene, just about the end of the sixties and the beginning of the 70's. This word was "Bad" to mean "Good". People would start saying "man that is bad" to really mean "that is real good". Bad was better because bad was cool and good well that was just: well square, to put it in the lingo of the time. People wanted to be cool so people started to use "Bad" to mean "Good".

Then in the 80's politicians decided that they were going to get on the band wagon and use this method as a way of confusing voters by wording propositions that were being voted on in state referendums by giving them titles that would have you think that a "yes" vote would mean that you agree with the law, and "no" vote would mean that you disagree with that law; however, if you read the wording of the law, it has a built in false negative that means that it reverses the mathematical equation such that your "Yes" vote actually means that you disagree with the law, and your "No vote actually means that you agree with the law.

Pardon me but this is really fracked up!

This is called Semantics and they should start having a new career for people to pursue and be licensed to practice as Semanticians, people who have to understand and translate all the linguistic variants within the English Language. The dictionary just doesn't cut it anymore.

So please all you folks out there that vote for news stories on Current, try to keep your voting clear to mean that your "Yes" vote means that you think the story should become a "Top News Story" and your "No" vote means you don't think that the story deserves to be a "Top News Story". And not that your "Yes" vote means that you agree with the story, or your "No" vote means you disagree with or dislike the news of the story.

Please correct me if I am wrong about the meaning of the buttons that vote on the news stories.

Regards to all my lovely friends and fellow truth seekers on Current.