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.
These Craig Kennedy books really are fascinating from a cultural point of view. One of the very first stories dealt with really advanced medicine: using X-rays as medical treatment (to remove a birthmark). Another was about a guy trying to use a gyroscope to make a fixed-wing aircraft hover. Another dealt with the unheard-of technology of ... microphones!
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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 7:06 PM, February 16, 2011
Mark P had this to say...
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<-- Older Post ^ Home Newer Post -->A hovering aircraft reminds me of a book I read fairly recently in the Tom Clancy mold that had a satellite hovering over the North Pole. The author was a former Air Force or Navy navigator. Probably pretty good at telling where he is, but not so good on science. I guess he figured that since a satellite can "hover" over the equator, it ought to be able to hover over the pole.
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