"Dad" Isn't a Bad Word

"When I was a little kid, I started with B. Then it was Ber and then Bern and now it's Bernard. Or the Bernster. I've never called him Bernie. And I never have called him Dad," says Levi. "Even when I was six years old, I thought it was childish. He was a friend, not an authoritarian."

This is just sad. What his son calls him doesn't matter, whatever they like and is comfortable for them is fine. What's sad about it is that Levi thinks that Dad = authoritarian. "Dad" isn't a bad word.

There are all types of dads - some good, some bad, a lot in between. I can see wanting to reject a bad one (which no one is saying that Sanders is), but rejecting the word "dad" just seems to be rejecting the whole concept of dadness.

By contrast, the Trump kids usually refer to Donald Trump as "dad".

Be Of Good Cheer

Literally, put on a happy face.

Middle English: from Old French chiere 'face', from late Latin cara, from Greek kara 'head'. The original sense was 'face', hence 'expression, mood', later specifically 'a good mood'.

Sky Boulders

Cloud - Old English clūd meaning a "mass of rock," from Proto-Germanic *kludas. Metaphoric extension from the 13th century based on the similarity of cumulus clouds and rock masses. The Old English word for "cloud" was weolcan which stayed in English as welkin, an archaic word for sky.

"The sun of heaven methought was loath to set,
But stay'd and made the western welkin blush" - King John 

"Thy hounds shall make the welkin answer them." - Taming of the Shrew 

"But shall we make the welkin dance indeed?" - Twelfth Night 

"If the winds rage, doth not the sea wax mad, Threatening the welkin with his big-swollen face?" - Titus Andronicus

What does it say about British weather, that a Germanic word for cloud became an English word for sky?