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"They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it is not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance." "Things that try to look like things often do look more like things than things. Well-known fact." Granny Weatherwax, via Terry Pratchett

She should be bitterly regretting the lawsuit, not the award. If the lexicon was that dangerous, she should have sued to have the website shut down. If it wasn't that dangerous online, it won't be that dangerous in hard copy.

I think Guns Germs and Steel gives a very good explanation of the difference between biological evolution and cultural evolution, and why societies sometimes find themselves caught between the two stools. The tensions between biological and cultural evolution seem to me to be a much more...

Same here, for the same reason. I really like reading Arthurian novels, but I couldn't get into this one. He seemed to me to be trying too hard to be different.

Few more (some of us don't think they suck)

Few more (might as well get some use out of all these smilies I've collected over the years).

I have a ton of different smilies saved on my computer after creating a smilie gallery for another site (which I can't post the URL to because I haven't made 15 posts, but it's "It's Nature Forums"), and some of them might work here if you want book and reader sorts of smilies.