Gosh, it’s been a long time since I’ve written. Sorry, folks. But we folklorists, you see, have to take something called an ‘annual Newspeak break’ from the newspaper—if we don’t, we risk spoiling our folklore left and right,—like by accidentally referring to swindlers as “lobbyists,” or bribe-money as “lobbying fees,” for example—which would definitely not last long as folklore, would it? Just because of how things like economics, politics, technology, and history work? Nope! If…