rs: Have I said Bush is the worst president ever, yet?
rs: I think he is, you know.
Asterax: Bush is rough. I wonder how text books will try to cover up his stupidity in the future.
Asterax: "Bush lacked many qualities."
Asterax: "Like his father, foreign policy was not his primary goal during his presidency."
Asterax: "Nor was reading."
rs: "Bush ( Read more... )

From an AP article, Katrina Response Angers Black Lawmakers:
[Rep. Diane Watson, D-Calif] and others also took issue with the word "refugee" being used to describe hurricane victims ( Read more... )

Ardent Patriotism Shown by Great Men
Pyongyang, September 1 (KCNA) -- Forty-five years have elapsed since leader Kim Jong Il entered Kim Il Sung University in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. On September 1, Juche 49 (1960), his first day in the university, he climbed Ryongnam Hill where he wrote and recited an immortal poem "Korea, I ( Read more... )

If you live in a flood area and a hurricane is coming, GET THE HELL OUT.

First order logic is a notation, not a language. Those who call it a "language" are engaging in a fantasy.

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You have:
62% SCIENTIFIC INTUITION and
47% EMOTIONAL INTUITION The graph on the right represents your place in Intuition 2-Space. As you can see, you scored about average on emotional intuition and above average on scientific intuition.Keep in mind that very few people score high on both! In effect, you can compare your two ( Read more... )

This happens to me all the time: a native English speaker starts talking about some animal, say, a cockroach, and anthropomorphizes it by referring to it as a he. But the word for cockroach in Spanish is cucaracha, which is feminine. I can't help but feel a cognitive dissonance whenever that happens: "But a cockroach is a she!"

I went today to San Francisco's free Stern Grove concert series, and saw their Waldemar Bastos and Maria de Barros event ( Read more... )

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