Monday, January 10, 2011

Things Others Are Saying . . .



Here is a wealth of information on the recent spate of animal deaths in the world.

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Isaac Asimov on the greenhouse effect back in January, 1989.

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Word Of The Day

Autodidacticism (also autodidactism) is self-education or self-directed learning. An autodidact is a mostly self-taught person, as opposed to learning in a school setting or from a full-time tutor or mentor.

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Even Huckleberry Finn can't say the N-word anymore.

Publisher's Weekly announced that they want to publish a version that won't be banned from some schools because of its language, two scholars are editing Mark Twain's classic Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to eliminate uses of the "N" word and replace it with "slave,"

It's all right to rewrite history due to shamelessly propagandized 'consensus', I suppose.

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NPR (National Public Radio) has a fine website. and I like to visit it frequently. If you've never read some of their stuff, you are missing out on a valuable experience. One example is the coverage of the victims involved in the Gabrielle Giffords tragedy, including a picture of the nine year old girl killed and the revelation that she was born on 9/11.

Here is the link


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While determining whether of not the word Nobelist is a correct designation for a winner of the Nobel Prize (yes it is) I spent at least a half hour reading all about the Nobel Prize.

The Nobel Prize



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Choice In Dying is a blog written by Eric MacDonald arguing for the right to die and against the religious obstruction of that right. Eric MacDonald is a fine writer and a dedicated proponent of the right to assisted dying. He is an example of the newly-evolving 21st century thinking man.

In my opinion.
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