It's frustrating, how these childishly suspicious gossips (these former journalists who wanna-be soap-opera stars) assume that Vice-President Mike Pence is the one who sent 'that anonymous op-ed' to the New York Times because of that 'clue' (in the campy style of Adam West's Batman's Riddler) of "using the word 'lodestar.'
Does anyone else in Washington D.C. use that word? Does anyone else in the world?
The word "Lodestar" is built on ancient words that mean '#Lode (built on ancient words for 'a Way, a Course, something to be |Followed') + #Star (sharing a root (*ster-) with |Asterisk, Asteroid, |Astro-, |Constellation, Disaster, the name |Estella, the name Esther, |Inter|stellar, |Stellar)' (old name for the Pole-star, which sailors would use to '|Lead the way' when |Land was Out-of-|Sight; it came to mean "a |Guiding |Force" (like an Ideal, Concept or |Leader)).
- George Bernard Shaw (in The Dark Lady of the Sonnets)
- Geoffrey Chaucer (in "Troilus & Criseyde")
- Jack Kemp (Pence's mentor)
- it's now the name of (science-fiction organization) Worldcon's YA-award
Besides Pence, other non-nautical users of the word 'Lodestar' include
I don't suspect anyone in the White House or -in the current administration of 'writing that op-ed' for the same reason Trump doesn't suspect Putin of messing with the 2016 election-results—besides the faith I hold–the belief that our election-officials securely verify the vote-count (and that the Senators would've joined with the State-Representatives in cancelling & re-taking the vote if there were any danger of a miscount)–any 'messing with the computers' vote-counting could just as easily have come from "a fat kid in Arkansas living in his mother's basement!"
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