Al Gore, accepting his Nobel prize:
In the Kanji characters used in both Chinese and Japanese, “crisis” is written with two symbols, the first meaning “danger,” the second “opportunity.” By facing and removing the danger of the climate crisis, we have the opportunity to gain the moral authorit...
Errr ... wrong on all counts? I mean, I know it is poetry and all, not science, and very cute for all that. But do we really want even poetry readers to think that there are aliens, and that they do leave signatures? Come to think of it, do we want them to think that the “proper” name for the wheat...
You know, just between you and me, I sometimes worry that there is a naive view loose out there -- most students come to linguistics believing it, and there appear to be some professional linguists who regard it as central and explanatory -- that language has something to do with purposes of effic...
Spare a pair of panties for peace. Send them to the nearest embassy of Myanmar. Why panties? There’s a full explanation here http://leahbowe.com/deathpower/2007/11/02/panty-protest-against-burmese-government/.
I’ve been away from the internets and hadn’t seen that this story had received a bit o...
Two weeks ago I bookmarked this entirely vacuous web page from something called Independent Catholic News.1 For all that time it gnawed vaguely at me. I felt I ought to respond. But why bother. They’re not listening. And yet, all it takes is for good people to do nothing ...
It’s about yet ano...
