The power of federal agencies has always been worrisome to conservatives, since agencies exist in a netherworld between the constitutional branches of government.
Winfrey's challenge was to reclaim a bit of the cultural spotlight that she once owned before abandoning her syndicated stardom for the cable netherworld.
Because Equity Linked CDs are a bank offering, they fall outside of the normal SEC or FINRA regulatory area and exist in a grey netherworld with little oversight.
It also exists in a netherworld of first order effects in which we can increase government spending without having to worry about spillovers and second order effects on the private sector.
So one of those skinny envelopes coming into someone's house these days is likely to be a waitlist envelope, which is like, you know, this netherworld where you really don't know what to think.
In the two years since releasing their spare and mostly gloomy self-titled debut, Amber Webber and Joshua Wells the duo known as Lightning Dust have somehow found happiness, or at least what passes for it in the strange netherworld they inhabit.
And many of us (including yours truly) feel as if we are out there in a netherworld of arranging meetings and accepting any paying gigs while constantly re-posturing our stances on what is acceptable and what is not in the course of doing business.