Language Liberalism Freethought Birds
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.
I've heard of this bird all my life, but ... well, I'm not going to say this is the first time in my life I've seen this bird because people will be amazed. But it's the first time since I've been paying attention. I thought she was a woodpecker, but I'm now convinced she's a yellow-bellied sapsucker - although sapsuckers are a kind of woodpecker, so I wasn't completely wrong.
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 6:22 PM, October 11, 2008
fev had this to say...
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<-- Older Post ^ Home Newer Post -->Czarina says "yep." Yellow-bellied sapsucker. (Czarina is a birder; I'm a telescope porter).
But we just had a first-of-year white-throated sparrow out here, and there's three huge raccoons about 50 feet up in one of the neighbor's oaks.
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