http://www.lexicography.com Its a blog, not a research tool Fri, 18 Jan 2008 04:54:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I am putting this domain up for sale. Obviously I do not have the interest to develop it. My new posts are found at bye-bye-usa.com, as I feel it is impossible to reform our government and the best avenue for anyone who can see what is coming is ... http://www.lexicography.com/?p=289 It seems to me that we use gasoline to power our automobiles for the same reasons that we use glass in the windows of our homes, or paper for books and newspapers. In each case we could use some substitute. Our windows could be rice paper or Plexiglas or wood. ... http://www.lexicography.com/?p=288 The only reason to look at the past is to make better decisions in the future. Period. http://www.lexicography.com/?p=287 Thomas Sowell: When I see the worsening degeneracy in our politicians, our media, our educators, and our intelligentsia, I can’t help wondering if the day may yet come when the only thing that can save this country is a military coup When I read this, I first wondered “how can ... http://www.lexicography.com/?p=286 In one of his novels, Phillip K. Dick had a clash of titans resting on opposite sides of some California valley. It was a world historical battle. The mountains which we mortals could see, represented the underlying greater forces of good and evil, engaged in combat. Sorry, I can;t ... http://www.lexicography.com/?p=285 Now is not the time to argue . . . now is simply the time to pick sides and fight for what you believe in. cite I think all rational discussion of what order for human society is better, is finished. There is no laboratory or rhetoric in this world ... http://www.lexicography.com/?p=283 Sometimes a few words convey a paragraph or more. When my 84 year old mother had some health problems which became more than things modern science could fix right up (and every reader will one day reach that point no matter where modern science goes) she said that she feared she ... http://www.lexicography.com/?p=280 I know that Seth Godin is well read in the blogosphere, but I do have to note, for myself as this place is for me, that he is a genius: Many people have dropped me a line about JetBlue. Here’s my simple prescription: Potlatch. This is a Native American term for a ceremony ... http://www.lexicography.com/?p=282 A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others. Said a man to a crapulent youth: “I thought ... http://www.lexicography.com/?p=281 ABSOLUTE, adj. Independent, irresponsible. An absolute monarchy is one in which the sovereign does as he pleases so long as he pleases the assassins. Not many absolute monarchies are left, most of them having been replaced by limited monarchies, where the sovereign’s power for evil (and for good) is greatly ... http://www.lexicography.com/?p=279