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Shade- Stephen King is a great writer. That's just my opinion, of course (as though I had to say so). To cut and paste a paragraph of his prose and evaluate it, misses the point completely. Talk about not seeing the forest for the trees! I would not take one chord of a symphony and critique...

I find that I think about this topic quite often. All day long, all LIFE long, I hear people AVER, and wonder what makes them so sure. To AVER. It means to make a statement and present it as fact. *THIS IS TRUTH!* I might say "It's going to rain tomorrow". I might make the statement because I...

I think that knowledge, as the word is being used here, implies more than an awareness of the immediate environment - such as where one's shoes are. It implies an awareness of facts OUTSIDE one's limit of direct observation - such as knowing where George Washington's shoes currently are. I...

Knowledge is Power. Time is Money. Power = Work/Time By simple substitution we get: Knowledge = Work/Money Solving for Money, we get: Money = Work/Knowledge Thus, the science of mathematics proves that Money approaches infinity as Knowledge approaches zero, regardless of the...

In the case of politicians, gifts raise the spectre of conflicts of interests - clearly unethical. But with this doctor, I initially thought there should be no reason why it would be unethical (as I mentioned, my wife and I always discuss the question before reading the published answer)...

This one is pretty tough (as all the "good ones" are). If I were confronted directly by anyone, I would give a minimal but definite statement that it was not me, but that's all I would say.

Well, here are a few that stick in my mind. -A woman wrote in, saying she lent her car to her friend (a woman) and that her car was seen parked overnight in a neighboor's driveway, whose wife was out of town. Her car is identifiable because of a bumper sticker. Now the neighboors are abuzz...

Well, I did read the context and I do think I understand what you are asking, and I DO think that same-sex relationships are fundamentally different from opposite-sex relationships. Let me put my own question into context. In another thread I just started called The Ethicist, I wrote about a...

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Blood Games was awful (at least the first 100 pages) but I REALLY LIKED In The Dark, and also Island.

Organ donation is a very tangled web - that's for sure. But, if the sister caused the damage, that WOULD change my answer. And that is whether or not the relationship was strained. I agree that his rhetorical style is laborious, his attempts at humor are often pathetic, and he is an...

I agree with that totally. Yet, gender IS one of the more important characteristics. That's why we have "sister" and "brother" and not just the androgenous "sibling". I realize there are all sorts of other influences on sibling relationships - as you say: age, bio parents, and other factors...

It occurred to me recently that the English language (and perhaps all or most other languages) is missing several important words. Shouldn't there be a different word for a female sibling of a male as opposed to a female sibling of a female - not just "sister", and correspondingly, a male...

Anybody read this column, by Randy Cohen? It is in the Sunday New York Times Magazine, every week. It is kind of an Ann Landers sort of advice column, that deals exclusively with moral dilemmas. Each week Randy prints 2 or 3 questions from people in ethical straights, and prints his replies...

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Try this: http://www.tripletsandus.com/80s/80s_games/qbert.htm There are other sites too.

I don't think this is true. At least, not today. It may have been true 40 years ago. A lot has changed. All cases should be reviewed individually - on a case-by-case basis, rather than applying one uniform standard for all cases. This practice COULD wind up giving the appearance of a...

No - you don't have to be there. It is a bit daunting - but, look at it like this: Suppose both Albert and Mary wrote compositions. Suppose in Albert's composition, he wrote the single "had" and Mary used the double "had had". For example, Albert wrote, "He had breakfast that morning" where...

I don't see what's so wrong with it. Jeez - if that were my teacher... It's our up-tight society that gets all jittery about sex. You really think the student was harmed? It's not like he was raped - he was willing, as far as I can read into this. I think her sentence is too harsh. You...

Oh. GOT IT! Thanks, kooky. Here's the solution to the one I posted: Takes some thinking about. Here's a quine I just thought of: "Has a nice ring to it" has a nice ring to it.