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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.
In the blast zones at Mt St Helens, Weyrhauser has been planting trees - noble firs, to be precise. Take a look at these pictures. Select them to get the full size - that blur is not in the image; it's in your mind. Imagine mile after mile of mass-planted firs, all the exact same age, all with those thin branches leading into each other... It's disorienting, to say the least!
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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 1:24 AM, July 21, 2009
John McKay had this to say...
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At 8:18 AM, July 21, 2009
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At 12:11 PM, July 21, 2009
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At 2:47 PM, July 22, 2009
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<-- Older Post ^ Home Newer Post -->Sadly, living in Washington, I don't have to imagine it. The most interesting variation on this theme is where they have planted over adjacent areas that were clear-cut years apart. Each one has a sign saying "planted in (fill in the year)." They look exactly the same; they just have different heights.
This is the sort of "forest" that idiots like Rush Limbaugh (I think it was - it might have been one of the other spewing right-wing heads) mean when they talk about how there is more forest in the US today than there was 100 (or fill in your own number) years ago. They aren't forests, they are crops.
It actually looks like a bad Photoshop touch-up job — you know, where one takes a bit of the image and replicates it in order to cover something up.
I crossed my eyes to see the 3D version. It didn't work.
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