Well, several reasons. One, it doesn't quite roll off the tongue, and two it would be rather smelly. Who needs smelly when you can be radioactive? Radioactive. It's a marvelous word that encapsulates far more than the sum of its syllables, certainly. It's one of those nice words this language bequeaths to us as a gift for minds to twist into new shapes like so much play-doh or taffy. It can be very literal, or very figurative. This unicorn's radioactivity is best described as figurative, but with very literal consequences. Why don't I start from the beginning, hm? Nuclear unicorn was something that a close friend called me not long ago as we were giggling about something both macropolitical and personal. The fact that I could, apparently, threaten the world. It was in response to some news story, one so generic that the specifics melt away in the sea of samey text and dogma. Another bull handed down from His Infallible-ness The Pope about how those who defy gender norms are as … [Read more...]