That's it. Let's put a stop to this now. While listening to a report on the plight of remittance banking in Mexico, I heard the last reference I want to of "perfect economic storm". Along with perfect environmental storm, perfect climate storm, perfect carbon storm, perfect pandemic storm; is there any disruption that has not been labeled thusly? When did "really, really bad" fall out of favor and have to be replaced with "perfect"? As a wordsmith I object to misusing words. It's abusive. Perfect, by any thinking definition, has to include the idea of being unable to be improved upon. Such as a perfect bowling score of 300. Or a baseball pitchers' perfect game of 27 consecutive outs. Mathematics has a lot of perfection, 360 degrees forming a perfect circle. But weather? Or the economy? Or politics? The wind could yet blow another mile per hour faster, the unemployment rate could go to 11 instead of 10, this administration could make the deficit 3.4 trillion instead of 3.3. You get the idea, there's always more where the first came from. That's not perfect, just increasing degrees of more. So let's end this. Smack in the head the next person who speaks to you about the perfect whatever storm! Write letters, begin boycotts! Or I declare to you the day will soon come when we'll be subject to earnest assertions about a "perfect hamster storm", breathless reporting of the "perfect weedwhacker storm"! It's time to band together, declare the whole phraseology so late 90s, and move on. Are you as sick of this term as I am? The prophet of the prairie has spoken. Let's put down the shovel and back away from the hole. That would be perfect. Thank you. | 
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