For the past year or more the hot buzz words and phrases such as, “literally” “at the end of the day” have been able to lend credence to otherwise nonsensical statements of nonfact or just plain made up points of opposition on what we now call the news.  It’s been fun.  If the term or words enter into discourse you can be pretty certain that the speaker is either making it up or so supremely confident of their position that they’re ignoring any other evidence to the contrary.

Well, a new term has arisen. “It is what it is.”  I rather like this.  It pretty much sums up just how miserably disappointing our economy and the consequences thereof can be.  It’s a sign of the times. It is what it is.  Of course as we delve deeper into the use of this expression of general apathy a pattern of not explaining things fully has emerged.

From pundits to celebrities to the commentary on national and international disasters, it is what it is.  Not preventable or avoidable.  They all simply are.

Keep your chins up.

It is what it is