pillager

The name ‘Raiders’ has negative connotations — synonyms include pillager, warmonger and aggressor.

She recounts the tangled legacy of Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana’s first prime minister and her baby brother’s namesake: “He was freedom fighter and dictator; father of the nation and pillager in chief.”

He followed this up in 1989 with Erik the Viking, which starred Tim Robbins as a reluctant pillager, and was based on his own children’s book published in 1983.

The crash happened last October on Interstate 94 in Rogers and killed 59-year-old Vernon Hedquist of Pillager.

My fruit-picking reference might make me sound like a pillager of the environment, out of tune with modern sensibilities, but that’s a problem with our metaphors, not with our reality.