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MEPHITIC: a really, really bad odor

July 11, 2010

It is odd to find such an ordinary meaning for such a lofty-sounding word, but that’s exactly the case with the word mephitic. Try to find a more literary meaning for it and you’ll fail.  It means that something stinks.  Oh, it can be used in a more formal way, like referring to a mephitic [...]

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CONUNDRUM: A paradoxical, insoluble, or difficult problem; a dilemma

June 10, 2010

Conundrum is a word usually employed with a humorous side to it.  It is a puzzle, like those we struggled with in Philosophy 101.
What is the sound of one hand clapping?
If a tree falls in the middle of the forest and there is no one present, is there a sound?

The answer is not something [...]

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OIL SPILL: my take on it at this point

June 2, 2010

(NOTE: I had prepared another post for today.  It was clever, entertaining, and current.  But a restless night drove me back to the computer this morning.  I eliminated the post, which I will save for another day.  This is one of those times when I am following my “gut” rather than sticking to [...]

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OIL SPILL: a crisis no longer waiting to happen

April 30, 2010

The massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and its resulting crisis for the residents of the Gulf Coast is a wake-up call to those pressuring for off-shore drilling.

If a similar crisis were to be occurring with a nuclear power plant there would be no excuses for a permanent moratorium on the building (and [...]

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