Archive of entries posted on 13th November 2007

Notable SF writer visits Creation Museum

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Let me say this much: I have to admit admiration for the pure balls-out, high-octane creationism that’s on offer here. Not for the Creation Museum that mamby-pamby weak sauce known as “Intelligent Design,” which tries to slip God by as some random designer, who just sort of got the ball rolling by accident. Screw that, …

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Is our verb forms failing us?

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Since when is the past tense of the verb “shine” “shined” rather than “shone?” Example: In this NYT op/ed discussing America’s failing infrastructure we find the following sentence: The deadly collapse of a Minnesota highway bridge in August shined a light on the poor state of the nation?s bridges, many thousands of which are ?structurally …

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