Any Old Road Will Do
Every decade and most presidencies have their signature contributions to language usage. True to form, everywhere you look these days someone is putting together a ‘roadmap’ for solving this or that issue.
Which would be cool, but then I think about my own use of such items and get discouraged. I seldom reach for that coffee-stained and accordion-pleated item, jammed as it usually is in the side-pocket of my car door, unless I am truly lost. I’ve had the feeling that this administration, perhaps (but not necessarily) more than most, has found itself way off the main highway in a confusion of side roads and unmarked byways. Cheney's been driving and he never asks directions.
Anyway, I find it interesting that just a quick Googling of ‘road map’ brings up the following unusual usages on the first three pages:
National Institute of Health’s roadmap for accelerating medical discovery
Transsexual Roadmap, transition is merely a journey
Bureau of Indian Affairs roadmap, which it claims is onl…