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Okay . . . I am back home now from my dog-sitting chores in the desert. Not that keeping company with Eva is a chore; she's a real sweetheart.
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Short Note Regarding Atheism
Why Are You Atheists So Angry? 99 Things That Piss Off the Godless is a video description of the new book written by Greta Christina -- I know that the announcement was previously posted on quarkscrew but I am repeating the announcement here in case some might have missed it.
Greta Christina is pictured in our own Writers Photo Album (she's not a member) posing alongside BT Murtagh (who is a member) and who, as I am sure all our members know, is an extremely talented fiction writer. The recent 6X6 exercise pretty well proved that.
The picture is HERE.
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Word For Today
procatalepsis
rhetorical figure by which an opponent’s objections are anticipated and answered.
The Grammarphobia blog posted several examples. Here are a couple of them: "Someone who begins by saying No offense, but … or Nothing personal, but … is about to step on your toes, and both parties know it."
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Born On This Day In History
Born March 23, 1912Died on Jun 16, 1977
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Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
--Oscar Wilde
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