On the Deuce-clubs roadside, waiting for my kale and espresso, I was thinking about what the political color of Vairterean Anarchy might be. It can’t be red or blue of course, nor even purple. The green thing is done to death and now represents not Mother Nature, nor even Jill Stein, but Howie Hawkins and that’s pretty ewww.

I was thinking orange might work, but then I checked it against the Wikipedia page on, yes it exists, Political Color. And yes, orange might be right path toward anarcho-syndicalism, but it’s also Christian-Democratic, and the color of the sellout NDP in Canada, conservative local imperialists in Israel, and ‘liberals’ against Catalan independence in Spain. So basically a bunch of tepid neo-libs at best. Giant Nnnope.

Of the common named colors, the least overused might be Grey. It can’t be straight-up Grey, thanks to those damn Confederates, but it turns out that there are a whole lot of variations on the theme:

Cinereous is a starkly beautiful damn word. And frankly it’s hard for me to imagine a better grayish than rose quartz, a mineral who I have long history with in the physical realm, plus, I mean … the barest hint of old-fashioned communist red? But the embarrassment of rich choices hardly end there:

So Silver is a gray … and fog too.

I was pondering all this just now and came up with a new meta-word, sister to the one I call Vaaair Terre.

Look for it to be worked in somewhere soon.