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Verbing Weirds Language only if you're expecting it to work in a simple way. This is a special case of the more general truth that Language Weirds.
Only when a republic's life is in danger should a man uphold his government when it is in the wrong. There is no other time.
The church says Earth is flat; but I have seen its shadow on the moon, and I have more confidence in a shadow than the church.
If we can't find Heaven, there are always bluejays.
Thinking about that R rating I got, and looking at some others at Science Blogs, I edited my template to lose the Philip K Dick ... well, the name, anyway. And guess what? Now I'm:
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I used to teach Russian and Ukrainian, and some basic English, to civil servants. Now I teach Russian at a local continued-learning institute. I dabble in Gaelic and Welsh. I'm am amateur photographer and I love birding (in a small way). I'm a Progressive, and a Freethinker, and I know Evolution is a fact - that's FCD, Friend of Charles Darwin (look down the sidebar). I read a lot, and follow women's college basketball. Also I love astronomy, though I'm a rank amateur at it. Most of all, I like living in the reality-based community...
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At 1:29 PM, June 23, 2007
Barry Leiba had this to say...
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At 2:11 PM, June 23, 2007
The Ridger, FCD had this to say...
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At 2:42 PM, June 23, 2007
Barry Leiba had this to say...
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<-- Older Post ^ Home Newer Post -->Wait, you REMOVED "Dick" and got a MORE RESTRICTIVE rating? Uh-huh.
That's why I never bother with any of those silly things.
Besides, any ratings system that doesn't distinguish, say, Philip K. Dick from Di*k Ch*ney would be quite useless.
Yep. Of course the refs to death and suicide had tripled, and some to shooting had been added.
Clearly, this rating isn't mostly about sex or profanity - death, danger, hurt, suicide, shooting: that's the problem.
Though any system that thinks this sentiment is "dangerous" to kids - To bereave a man of life... or by violence to confiscate his estate, without accusation or trial, would be so gross and notorious an act of despotism as must at once convey the alarm of tyranny throughout the whole nation; but confinement of the person, by secretly hurrying him to jail, where his sufferings are unknown or forgotten, is a less public, a less striking, and therefore a more dangerous engine of arbitrary government. - isn't trustworthy, anyway.
Mm, well, yes, rating for violence, rather than for sex, certainly makes more sense. I've always wondered why we'd, collectively (not I!) rather have our kids watch people being killed and maimed than have them watch people loving each other. But, then, I'm weird.
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