P.S. A Column On Things

By PAUL E. SCHINDLER JR. I am from Portland, Oregon, Beaumont ’66, Benson High ’70, MIT ’74. Some things are impossible to know, but it is impossible to know these things.

Collective Nouns

September 20, 2026

Nicky Mee just reported  the fact that the collective noun for a group of ferrets has been “a business” for four centuries. I propose some collective nouns for our times. I would love to see yours.

A scumbag of Trumpers
A paucity of GOP patriots
A disaster of Trump Appointees
A den of thieves (an exercise left to the reader)
A malice of Supreme Court justices
A disaster of Supreme Court justices
A deathwish of snowboarders (A tip of the PSACOT hat to Wendy Postlethwaite)
(OK, this list does lean a  little to the political side)

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