Gnomic Samurai is a Whovian. He has a Weeping Angel on the top of his Christmas tree. Gnomic Samurai does not blink.

Don't be reactionary. Be gnomic!

Gnomic Samurai sometimes hears people describing themselves or their behaviour as reactionary and he suspects they don't actually mean it. Latest on the list was the Ottawa mayor on a radio interview last week. The mayor was talking about policing, and sticking to his opposition against the creation of a Safe Injection Site in Ottawa. Well, come to think of it we has in fact being reactionary! But when he used the word in the interview he seemed to want it to mean reactive. 

Best practice is usually to avoid trying to make words mean things they don't - unless you're a poet. Otherwise next thing you know you'll be saying a friend is a fascista when what you want to say is that she's a fashionista (whatever the heck that means...)