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Pirate modeChris Clarke did this to me.
1. Of all the books that you have eventually finished after many starts & stops, which one took you the longest and how long did it eventually take?
I usually zip through books without much delay, but The Structure of Evolutionary Theory (amzn/b&n/abe/pwll) dang near killed me. It's dense and technical, and I dreaded every parenthesis. It took me about 3 months to get through it all.
2. What great band (or album or song) have you heard so often, you wouldn?t mind never hearing again even though you still think the band (or album or song) is great?
I'm going to pick a whole genre. It's almost Halloween, at which time corporate America will begin the incantations to raise Burl Ives and Bing Crosby and Gene Autry from their graves. By Thanksgiving, they'll all be in full-throated warble, and every seasonal novelty song written since the 40s will be played on our radios. By Christmas, I'll be trying to book a one horse open sleigh ride to Jerusalem, where on a midnight clear I will slip silently through the night to stake baby Jesus through the heart with one of the little drummer boy's sticks.
3. Which cliché or often cited quote needs to be placed in quarantine for a few decades?
"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."
Every clown and wanna-be revolutionary uses this to rationalize ridicule of their crazy ideas into a promise that one day, they will be recognized as true geniuses.
God is love.
No, he isn't. If he existed at all, the evidence suggests he must be one sick psychopath. Please don't try to tell me you're living a life of compassion and dedication to a sympathetic and loving being while you're trying to strip unbelievers, women, minorities, and gays of their civil rights—I'm not falling for it.
If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down.
Actually, any attempt by any creationist to a) invoke complexity as an anti-evolutionary argument, or b) dragoon the words of a scientist into the service of their religious dogma ought to be cause to hand him a bottle of Medoc and take him on a tour of some damp and niter-bestrewn vaults. Why settle for mere quarantine when immurement is an option? In pace requiescat!
4. During the 1990s "Compassion Fatigue" received a lot of press, now the media is giddy with "Donation Fatigue". What will be the next trendy fatigue?
Fatigue fatigue. We're getting tired of being told we're tired.
5. What percentage of respondents will answer "meme fatigue" to question #4?
None, because the whole point of question 5 is to make them come up with a different answer to question 4.
I'm supposed to pass this on. Since I have just discovered that I have blogchildren, but the ingrates never write or visit, I have no choice but to whine at afarensis, Schwaumlaut, Roman Roth, John Wilkins, and Evil Monkey. Consider yourself lucky; I could be nagging you about giving me grandchildren, or to put on my foot liniment.
And after you're done, I want you to tidy up your rooms and get on your homework!
1. In the Blink of an Eye by Andrew Parker,has taken me since mid- summer off and on. I have read several other books during that time. My book was not a weighty tome like your example. I just tend to have a number books and magazines on my night stand all the time. I read these for enjoyment. Whatever suits my fancy that night is what I read.
2. God Bless America became part of baseball's seventh inning stretch in the aftermath of 9/11. If we keep singing this insipid song during baseball games, the terrorists have won.
3. If we evolved from monkeys, why are there still monkeys? I still chuckle every time I run across it. Although when I see it multiple times within a couple of days, I tend to despair.
4. Bush fatigue will be sweeping the nation.
5. It won't be 100%.