"Enfermedad de Base" Chronicles

Overheard at my breakfast table today… Me: It’s funny, I guess the new euphemism they’re using on Venezuelan State media reports about Chávez is “the underlying disease”… My...

Overheard at my breakfast table today…

Me: It’s funny, I guess the new euphemism they’re using on Venezuelan State media reports about Chávez is “the underlying disease”…

My [genuinely confused] wife: Meaning “insanity”, right?