CACHE (from) Latin coactare, to constrain, from cogere, to drive together: com-, together + agere, to drive. A hole or hiding place. The container and the contained. The stash and the stashed. The jail and the jailed. A cache most often refers to valuables, particularly money, that we drive together and hide. Few places in the world have security as tight as big banks. Is money being held prisoner?

CAMPAIGN (from) Late Latin, countryside, (from) Latin campus, field, plain. Not to be confused with warfare, which is not a nice thing to do to fields that could be used to grow grain, or grow a campus for training agricultural students. Sometimes confused with Camp Pain, a miserable place where weekend warriors spend the night after battle with unarmed ducks and deer.

CANCER (from) Latin, cancer, crab, creeping ulcer. The scourge of the 20th Century, necessitated by man's ravenous consumption of Earth and Nature. In reply, Nature created a predator that feeds on humans, and in order to give herself a chance at survival, made said predator invisible to man's naked eye.

CANNABIS (from) IndoEuropean kannabis. Hemp. This word was unchanged by the Greeks. In Germanic it was hanipiz, in Old English henep, haenep, and became English hemp. Hemp is one of this planet's most important and remarkable plants. It produces more biomass per acre than any currently known crop, from which we may derive paper, fabric and oil. As far as I know, the oil can be refined to create almost anything that petrol can be refined to. I would venture to say that hemp is a long honored plant for its domestic contributions as well as its religious sacriment. It is too bad that such a promising agricultural product has been so abused by otherwise well meaning folk who don't yet understand all its many uses.

CANVAS (from) cannabis.

CAPITAL (from) Latin caput, head. A town that is the seat of government. Wealth accumulated for and used by The Bureaucracy and commerce. For example, "To influence a politician at the nation's capitol is soon going to require a truckload of capital."

CAPITALISM (from) Latin caput, head. An economic system characterized by freedom to waste resources, over-produce goods, under-pay labor and undercut competition until labor problems, inflation and depression correct it. One of Karl Marx's favorite systems of government, since he knew what bourgeois democracy under capitalism would do to the Western world.

CAPITOL (from) Latin caput, head. An unoccupied space at the nation's capital and rendezvous for large portions of the nation's capital. Headquarters for the illogical and unjustifiable distribution of it to excessive military expenditures.

CAREEN (from) French carene, keel. To move rapidly in an uncontrolled manner. What racecourses, rat races and careers are built for.

CAREER (from) French carriere, racecourse. A sense of rapid forward movement. Wanna race?

CARNIVAL (from) Old Italian carnelevare , "the putting away of flesh," from Latin carn-, flesh + levare, to remove, to lighten. Carnival is the week of merrymaking before Lent when the Romans removed flesh from their diet in order to cleanse the mind, body and spirit for Spring. Lenten refers to the lengthening of days, and naturally became the time for lightening the body in commemoration of Christ's fasting in the wilderness. This is a good example of modern opposition to the origin. We now associate carnival more with feasting (carnivorism) and side-shows (Mardi Gras).

CARNIVORE (from) Latin carnivorous: caro, flesh, + vorare, to devour, flesh eating. One who feeds on the timid vegetarians and is a great threat to those who eat no meat. During the early years of famine, everyone carries a leg bone at all times, if they eat meat or not.

CASH (from) Tamil kacu, a small copper coin, from Sanskrit karsa, a certain weight. The certain weight of any material representing a specific value, classically gold and silver. Since the elimination of the gold standard, the value of our cash is held steady by the increasing weight of its volume. Eventually, no cache will hold the volume of our cash, so we become a cacheless society.

CASUAL (from) Latin casus, fall, chance. Aimless, carefree, informal, relaxed.

CASUALTY (from) casual. Those lost to injury, death, capture and desertion, many from having casually strolled into the local military recruiting office. How have we been convinced to take our casualties so casually? If we watch T.V. we witness about a thousand dramatized homicides a year. How does The Bureaucracy deal with crime in America? They casually wage war on it, thus creating more casualties!

CENSE (from) Old French encenser, from encens, incense (noun). To perfume with or burn incense.

CENSOR (from) Latin censere, to assess. In ancient Rome, one of two officials responsible for supervising the public census, and public behavior and morals. NOTICE: The official census is conducted by the Department of Commerce, and failure to comply with census questions may be morally wrong, so behave.

CENSUS (from) Latin census, registration of citizens, from censere, to assess, tax. An official count and evaluation of property for purposes of taxation. More than just how many of us live here, major corporations want to know certain demographic statistics for purposes of commerce.

CENTRALISM (from) Latin centrum, center. The assignment of authority to a single group or location. A social malfeasance that insists big is better, and ignores thousands of years of local human autonomy based on simple agriculture and true democracy. As the Centralists expand their power base they tend to further ignore the Bioregionalists who remember the human scale, and that the bigger anything gets, the harder it falls.

CENTS (from) Latin centum, hundred(ths of a dollar.) After all, cents make dollars, and commerce is after that.

CHAOS (from) order.

"There are people who make a rule of creating chaos so that once the chaos is underway they can then be elected as the people who take care of the chaos." -- Jack Kerouac

CHEF < Old French chief, from Latin, head.

"If the human race would but listen to the voice of reason it would recognize that chefs are as superfluous as soldiers." -- Seneca

"Or did Seneca say chiefs rather than chefs?" -- Roger Henry

CHILDREN < Old English. 100 years ago children were an asset to the farm, even if the farm became a liability or was crippling. Today, children are an added liability to the typical "upwardly mobile two working parents" who have to hire poor people to raise the children. Those to whom the angels are most likely to visit, due to the purity of heart that has yet to be traumatized by adulthood.

CHOCOLOGICAL < Aztec xococ, bitter + Greek logos, reason. Therapy with chocolate rather than psychological counseling for the need of more sex. The alkaloid that occurs in chocolate products, theobromine, is derived primarily from the cacao bean. Theo is god, and bromine is from Greek broma, food. Literally, it is "the food of the gods."

CHOICE < (Germanic) Gothic kausjan (unattested). Our greatest power!

"Choose always the way that seems the best, however rough it may be; custom will soon render it easy and agreeable." -- Pythagoras

"Choosing well does not consist of selecting that which we are told to choose, but in deciding on what is agreeable and useful to us." - Roger Henry

CHRIST from Greek khriein, to anoint. "The anointed one." (Not to be confused with CHRISTIANITY). A socialist agitator of the 1st Century A.D. who ran afoul of the bankers and politicians and was properly reprimanded for his subversive actions.

CHRIST-LIKE from post-fundamentalist thought. A behavioral attitude towards our Mother Earth, the Father in Heaven and all of God's children that we would be wise to emulate.

CHRISTIANITY from Mithraism. A Mediterranean cult largely fashioned from the Persian Mithra who was born on December 25th 3,000 years ago. Mithraism competed with the attention of the Roman myth makers and church for a thousand years before Christianity finally absorbed it. Almost all of the origins, sacraments, holy days, priests and their titles, and abilities of "The Anointed One" are borrowed from a cult that was more successful than the Christian cult for the first 400 years of Christianity in Italy.

CHRISTIANS (from) Protestants (from) Catholics (from) Mithraics. Ancient warrior class whose faith is in soldiers, standing armies and implements of destruction. Those that deliver the message of a subjective heaven filled with "The Faithful." One of the faithful who believes that "Heaven" is the end of the progress of the soul just before he ends the progress of your life for not understanding the message and being "saved." One with whom one should not argue the Crusades and the number of persons murdered in the name of "God." Those who contemporarily are barely 6% of the world's people, yet believe that all are lost save themselves.

"If Christians would teach infidels to be just to Christianity, they should themselves be just to infidelity." -- John Stuart Mill

CHRISTMAS (from) Mithraism. For its first three centuries, the Christian church knew no birthday for its savior. In the 4th Century the Roman church adopted December 25 because the Mithraics in Italy were used to calling it a god's birthday. The Church eventually adopted most of the other pagan rituals celebrated around the solstice, primarily the rebirth of the light of the sun.

CIGARETTE SMOKE (from) Hell. One of the gaseous components of the underworld manufactured on Earth by nearly two hundred years of tobacco consumption by those who don't realize they will have to breathe it again.

CIVILIZE (from) Latin civis, citizen. To bring out of a primitive or savage state; educate or enlighten; refine. For example, "I look forward to the time when the meek inherit the Earth and civilize the savage consumers of America."

CLARITY (from) Latin clarus, clear. A lack of misunderstanding.

CLEAVE (from) Middle English cleven, clevien. To split or separate. To adhere, cling, or stick fast to. For example, "I shall henceforth cleave to cleave from the rules."

CLOCK (from) Middle Dutch clocke, bell. The Church built lots of towers in Europe during the last 1500 years, and bells hung in them all when clocks were introduced in the 15th Century. The bells were rung on the hour by human attendants until mechanical contrivances were created. Twas a couple of centuries before everyone carried their own timepieces. For the common folk the clocks and bells in the center of town (in some countries) were the same, since they had the same purpose: to remind the townfolk of who sponsored the towers. Other bell words are clapper and clang. Return to MIDDLE AGES

COALESCE (from) Latin coalescere, to grow together (co-, together + alescere, to grow, inceptive of alere, to nourish). Fuse, to come together so as to form one whole, unite. What we the people of America had better do.

COALITION (from) Latin coalescere, coalesce. An alliance, especially a temporary one, of factions, parties, or nations. A combination or fusion into one body; union. For example, the Democratic-Republican Coalition, so formed in the effort to hide from the American taxpayer the outrageous waste of American tax money.

"The U.S. cannot successfully bring about a coalition for peace unless the two major political parties cooperate on major policies." -- John Foster Dulles

COFFER (from) Old French cofin, < Latin cophinus, basket. Often used with "up." For example, "Hey, Buddy, you owe more tax, so coffer up." Where the taxes are buried.

COINCIDENSE (from) Medieval Latin coincidere, coincide, + densus, thick. An accidental sequence of events that demonstrates how thick we can all be at the same time and place. For example, "Isn't it a coincidense that the people of this 'peace loving' country have been convinced to push for greater gross national product when the ultimate GNP is war?"

COMET INSURANCE (from) commerce. A gamble with astronomical odds. Speculative business at its premium.

COMIC (from) Greek komos, revel, merrymaking. Anything that provokes humor in art or life. For example, the word cosmic with the 's' removed.

COMMERCE (from) Latin "collective merchandise." Business. Intellectual exchange or social intercourse. Sexual intercourse. Gives new meaning to "commercial." Not to be confused with what commerce does to the consumer.

"Every dollar spent for missions has added hundreds to the commerce of the world." -- N.G. Clark

"When church split from state, it allied itself to commerce, then required that the state regulate commerce. Meanwhile, the church busied itself with the saving of souls from that which commerce produces, including war. -- Roger Henry

COMMODE (from) Latin commodus, commodious, convenient. A huggable ceramic bowl with a large convenient hole in the bottom. A convenience outlet.

COMMON (from) Latin, communis, common, public, general: Implies that which is customary, takes place daily, is widely used, or is generally known. Best used with "in" and "good", for example, "What we have in common is best used for our common good." Other words with the same origin include: commune, community, communion and communism.

"Common sense is, of all kinds, the most uncommon." -- Tryon Edwards

COMMUNE (from) Latin communis, public, COMMON. Used as a noun, it is a community organized with its own local self-interest at heart, kind of like the original settlements of Europeans on the eastern coast of North America.

COMMUNISM (from) Latin communis, public. When this word is capitalized it has a different meaning than when not capitalized. We give hateful political significance to capital Communism, and hence give distrust to lower case communism. It is my opinion that the few who "have" hate to share it with others, let alone consider all possessions as something common to all. If the Christian heaven is devoid of all the material stuff Christians confess they can't take with them, and they have to share in common the only thing in heaven, which is the love of God (and the hatred of Pagans and everybody else who didn't make it to their heaven -- don't get me started) then the Christian heaven, like Jamestown, Virginia, is a commune and Christian angels are communists.

COMPACT (from) Latin com-, together + pangere, to fasten (+ pacisci, to agree.) A small case containing a mirror and a rouse. The compaction of radioactive materials into deadly concentrations is a mirror of what happens when we compact anything into too close quarters, it rouses things into excitement. For any state to agree to compact other states' nuclear waste inside its borders is going to compact citizens into resistant action. The answer is simply to end nuclear anything and everything.

COMPANION (from) Latin companio, com-, + pani , bread, "one who eats bread with another." Real companions will also eat quiche together.

COMRAD (from) Radiation. One who glows in the dark with another.

COMRADE (from) Old French, roommate, soldier sharing the same room, (from) Spanish, camarada, (from) camara, room, (from) Late Latin camera, (from) Latin, arched roof, (from) Greek kamara, vault (of heaven). A fellow (male) member, as in a fraternal group. (Women don't make war.) Those we'll meet in heaven if they are our comrades or our enemies, and if they are Christians.

CONCRETE (from) Latin concrescere, to grow together, harden. A brittle cover to temporarily protect the ground under houses and cars. It hides soil from toxic waste and radioactive fallout until such time as we grow together to break up and remove it in order to grow food together in the rich unpolluted earth underneath.

CONFUSE (frp,) Latin com-, together + fundere, to pour. The IndoEuropean origin of fundere is gheu-, to pour, pour a libation, and is the origin of fuse, to mix together as if by melting. This word was originally used in reference to liquids, not human misunderstanding, but you mix too many libations with humans and you get a meltdown that will fuse with anything you can pour it into.

CON FUSION (from) Latin confidere, to trust + Latin fundere, to melt. Believing that fusion-produced electricity will be cheap, clean and plentiful. In September of 1954 former chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission Rear Admiral Lewis L. Strauss said about fission, "Our children will enjoy in their homes electrical energy too cheap to meter." In 1957, certain atomic scientists believed that fusion would fill the world's power needs for 10 billion years. All they had to do was heat hydrogen gas to 100 million degrees C for several seconds. The Brits managed 5 million degrees C for 2 thousandths of a second, and Americans working on the Perhapsatron (no kidding) at Los Alamos achieved 6 billion degrees C for a few millionths of a second. The best efforts of both these experiments produced a reaction that returned only about one trillionth of the energy spent in obtaining it. Since the mid-50s, the best expectations of fusion scientists has put the containment of thermonuclear reaction about 30 years away, where it remains today. Don't be con fused.

CONGRESS < Latin congredi, to come together (from) com-, together + gradi, to go. A formal group that comes together and is going to spend billions of your tax dollars. Sexual intercourse (not to be confused with what Congress does to the taxpayer). Compare SERVE.

CONSCIENCE (from) Latin com- (intensive) + scire, to know. It hurts to know the crimes committed by big business and The Bureaucracy against the common folk of the world. We may only conclude that the conscience of those who should know better has failed to serve them.

"A wounded conscience is able to un-paradise paradise itself." -- Fuller

"In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place." -- Mohandas Gandhi

"We never do evil so thoroughly and heartily as when led to it by an honest but perverted, because mistaken, conscience." -- Tryon Edwards

CONSERVATION (from) Latin conservare, to keep. The act of conserving, generally (and hopefully) used in reference to the environment. What "conservatives" often forget to practice, let alone understand why.

CONSERVATIVE (from) Latin conservare, to keep. Favoring the preservation of the existing order and distrusting proposals for change. A misnomer for those who would liberally change the U. S. Constitution to suit their own purposes while distrusting efforts to prevent such changes.

"He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils." -- Bacon

CONSERVE (from) Latin conservare, to keep, preserve. Fruits jammed in sugar. Beats being jammed into jail.

CONSPIRACY (from) Latin com-, together + spirare, to breathe. An agreement to perform an evil act or commit a crime. Breathing is not an illegal act, but may be wherever two or more are gathered in His name.

CONSTITUENCY (from) Latin com- (intensive) + statuere, to set up. A group of supporters, even if we were set up.

CONSUME (from) Latin consumere, to take completely < sumere, to take up. It doesn't take up much room to say that excessive American habits are going to completely suck up this world's resources. If it is true that our planet is indeed a living organism, and we are guests here that threaten our host's existence, then we may expect that before we take up all the room and life, She may well need to completely take us out. I am not, however, consumed with such an idea.

CORN (from) Old English (from) Latin granum, grain. A sacred food grown for thousands of years by native Americans. Corn has no European origin, and as yet, has not been found to have any primitive ancestors. Some native Americans claim that corn fell out of the sky long ago when it was needed.

"We gave the white man corn once. He screwed it up." -- Cherokee Medicine Man

CORPORATION (from) Latin corpus, body. A body of persons recognized as an entity having rights and liabilities distinct from those of its members.

"A corporation is an ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility." -- Ambrose Bierce

"No corporation holding ancestral (Indian) land has ever proven in court that land has been legally acquired from the Indian people." -- Marie Lego, surviving Pit River American

COSMIC (from) Greek kosmos, order, the universe, the world. Harmonious; orderly. Often conferred upon the space case that lives a disorderly life and is mostly "out of this world." A writer?

COSMOGONY (from) cosmo- + gonos, creation. A study of the creation of the world, order, and the universe.

COSMOLOGY (from) cosmo- + -logy, study. A study of the structure and dynamics of how the world's scientists order the universe.

COSMOPOLITAN (from) Greek "citizen of the world" < cosmo- + polites, citizen, from polis, city. Common to the whole world. Currently associated with the cover of a magazine and the facade of a people who hide behind a mask provided by city life and its attendant consumption. One who is, as yet, incapable of farming.

COSVOY (from) Greek cosmic, of the universe, + Middle English convoyen, a group of vessels traveling together. A group of space ships traveling together, led by Truck Rogers.

COUNTERFEIT (from) Latin contra, opposite to, + facere, to make. To make a copy of, usually with intent to defraud, especially as regards currency. For example, "Ever since the Federal Reserve eliminated the gold standard for currency, all the money it has printed is essentially counterfeit, in that it no longer has any real value."

COURAGE (from) Latin cor, heart. Heart, mind, disposition. A quality of spirit that enables people to face adversity. A reserve of moral strength not kept in the medicine cabinet to draw on in times of emergency.

"To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage." -- Confucius

COWA BUNGA, KENTA UNGOWA (from) Tarzan movies. Obviously the language of African elephants, I take the liberty to redefine from IndoEuropean origins. Cowa, cow; bunga, a hole that liquid comes out of; kenta, can't; ungowa, not God. Interpretation: "Don't let bullshit not be your God." The doctrine of commercialism and religions the world over. Tarzan didn't say that for the benefit of the elephants, he said it for the corporate sponsors.

CRAMBO (from) Hollywood. Watching a Stallone movie a dozen times a day.

CREATE (from) Latin creare, to bring into being. For example, "If it took God only six days to create the world, think how fast He could un create it."

CREATION SCIENCE (from) Fundamentalism. An attempt to remix church and state, much to the embarrassment of the state, as it signals the evolution of church in state affairs. It is always the delight of commerce, which stands to gain book sales and concessions, and the delight of religion, which stands to gain booked souls and confessions.

"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." -- Albert Einstein

CREDIT (from) Latin credere, to believe. The power to buy now, pay later. The other side of debt (the hope of which is bankruptcy), and the belief that we can buy now and pay never if the stock market and the economy continue to collapse. Another antietymopathism.

CREMATE (from) Latin cremare, to burn. Purification by fire, whether by nuke or by God.

CREMATION SCIENCE (from) Nuclear physics. The evolution of church and state back to basics (ash & dust).

CRETIN (from) French cretin, idiot, from Swiss French crestin , Christian, hence, human being, hence, deformed idiot (who is nonetheless human), from Latin Christianus, Christian. No comment.

CRIMINAL (from) Latin crimen, verdict, judgment. Pertaining to the administration of law. "Criminal" behavior is literally that which is practiced by those who judge.

"Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it." -- Alfieri

CRITICISM (from) Greek krinein, to separate, choose. Necessary directives that each concerned person chooses to occasionally hear on the way to the culmination of a decent human life. Not to be confused with condemnation or other critical judgments by those who have no business judging.

CRUD (from) Middle English crudde. A disgusting coat of filth, especially one that affects the skin. A contemptible incrustation on the hides of marine animals and planets that can't be hidden.

CRUDE (from) Latin crudus, bloody, raw, from IndoEuropean kreu-, raw flesh. Unrefined petroleum. When it washes up on a shore as magnificent as Prince William Sound, it's a bloody mess.

CRUEL (from) Latin crudelis, morally unfeeling, from IndoEuropean kreu-. Our indifference to the suffering wildlife in Alaskan waters would surely change were we able to hear the screams, cries, moans and other terrifying Prince William Sounds.

CRUSADE (from) Old French croiser, to bear the cross, from Latin crux, cross. The crux of this is that wherever The Cross has been borne militarism is not far behind to enforce the laws of the Roman god makers. To wit: If you will not swear to our God, you will be crucified, and some who do will also be crucified. Please take a number and get in line. Good used crosses are available.

CULTURE (from) Latin cultus, cultivation. What Americans lack, due primarily to our "cosmopolitan education" and unaccountable tastes. In the coming global famine people will discover that, with a little culture, we can cultivate our own food and keep the culture alive.