This is excellent news! I just read — or maybe I heard it in the background noise of the TV set — that someone has referred to Ketanji Brown Jackson, the next justice to be seated on the Supreme Court, as “KBJ.”
Why is that cool? It’s because the media along with the public usually reserve those identifications by name initials to those who are held in generally high esteem.
You know: JFK, LBJ, RFK, MLK Jr., FDR. I have taken to referring to other more contemporary individuals as well by their initials: Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, aka AOC is one and, yes, I have referred to the likes of Marjorie Taylor Greene as MTG and Donald Trump as DJT.
It is a strange phenomenon that not all public figures get that designation as a matter of regular practice. BHO is one of those who’s been left out of the initial-ID name club. George W. Bush is known as just plain W., or Dubya.
So … welcome to the newly formed Club of Iconic Figures, Judge Jack … er, KBJ.
Don’t forget RBG – the only Supreme Court justice I know of to ever be commonly known by her initials.
Got it, Ted.