Eric Renouf's MindSay Blog

Musings on the 4th

beatle42 — 2007-07-04T08:07:51-05:00

The 4th of July is certainly a momentuous day in the US's history and given our status perhaps world history. People rising up to throw off a perceived oppressor is a good thing. Building a country on the ideas of...

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Another language rant

beatle42 — 2007-07-03T11:07:09-05:00

Perhaps this battle is already lost. This whole post may well be moot, but I'm still going to get my rant in anyway. Expanding on my discussion from yesterday about semantics and the...

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I have a theory. . .

beatle42 — 2007-07-02T11:07:20-05:00

I have a theory about why we all dismiss inconvenient science. . . Well, obviously with any topic this big there are lots of influences. People using the same word to mean different things has come up other places...

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the US is NOT a Christian nation

beatle42 — 2007-06-10T05:06:11-05:00

Let us celebrate today the 210th anniversary of the formal declaration by our government that the United States is unequivaclly not a Christan nation and never has been. This was stated very clearly in the

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Supporting the Troops

beatle42 — 2007-06-02T12:06:53-05:00

No one who wants the troops to stay in Iraq can say that they support the troops. After all, if you support keeping them in a place where they are dieing for no reason related to our safety how are you...

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celebrity opining and plebian whining

beatle42 — 2007-05-18T10:05:08-05:00

Bruce Willis recently--and ironically--joined the chorus of people who tell celebrities to keep their opinions to themselves. This is an argument I just really do not understand. Everyone, celebrity or not,...

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know what I'm sayin'?

beatle42 — 2007-05-17T12:05:58-05:00

As I mentioned in my first post I think that communication, at least effective communication, is hard. I've been wondering what makes this so difficult. I have a few theories, although these are merely...

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Intro

beatle42 — 2007-05-16T10:05:14-05:00

Man it's so hard to actually say what you really mean. On top of not saying what we really mean others don't even hear (or later remember) what we actually said. Is there any wonder that there's so much...

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