[T]his is an outrage! This man is impossible... My course is clear... this means war... [Duck Soup]

Mike Pompeo outraged

Pompeo ‘outraged’ at UN blacklist of firms with Judea and Samaria ties

OUTRAGE OVERLOAD

[T]his is an outrage! This man is impossible... My course is clear... this means war... from Duck Soup

Outrage as Italian conservatoire bans all “oriental” students over coronavirus fears

A senior Whitehall civil servant has emailed local councils telling them to fly the union flag in honor of Prince Andrew's birthday next week... . Council leaders and MPs are predictably outraged... [POLITICO LONDON PLAYBOOK, February 6, 2020]

Citing Spain's treatment of Catalonia as an exemplar is perhaps not the best way to win Scottish hearts and minds, and SNP activists and politicians were predictable outraged last night. SP MP Steward McDonald deemed Nandy  "clueless,: while his colleague Douglas Chapman called the interview "disastrous." Former SNP MP George Kerevan said he was "gobsmacked," and Herald columnist Ian Macwhirter added, "So broken heads, riot police and locking up elected politicians. Someone tell me I misheard, please." [POLITICO LONDON PLAYBOOK, January 16, 2020]

MEETING OF THE OUTRAGED

A plan to build 80,000 square feet of marijuana greenhouses in Great Barrington is drawing strenuous resident pushback despite its proponents offering to reduce the size of the operation by 20 percent. The local paper reports a meeting on the proposal devolved from a community outreach meeting into a "community outrage meeting." [THIS WEEK IN WEED, January 4, 2020]

OVER USE OF "OUTRAGE"

How often have you been outraged this week? People seem to be more frequently outraged than ever before. Of course, we have much to be outraged about but is what we are feeling truly outrage? Outrage, true outrage, consists of surprise, disgust, and anger. If you are not experiencing all three at one time, you are not truly outraged.

How often can someone do something unforeseen and you continue to feel surprise? How offensive does that behavior have to be to cause disgust? And what really raises your ire? I suggest that most of us are not feeling outrage but an abhorrent hatred of stupidity, cruelty and megalomania.  So please, quit using the word "outrage" for the mundane or we will never return to recognizing being outraged when we are.