Flabbergastation

First published in Column 8, some time in the 1990s 

Flabbergastation isn'ta word you'll hear very often. (The emphasis is on "station.") One ofthe local radio announcers flung it past my ears while describing Dunedin's welcometo the America's Cup winners.

Curiously enough, flabbergastationdescribes the state in which I've found myself over the last week or two, astate in which I feel as though I must see both sides (or more), of everycurrent argument. It's difficult to be appropriately op...