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That is lunule-cy! He was coming un-hinged and his shrink suspected a case of anomia. Hey, this is opening Pandora's box, I'm a tellin' you.

David Kirsh
Durham, NC

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>> It may seem funny to you, but to the policeman it was a great ca-lamity!
>
>Shell shock.  What's more, he couldn't sue the gull, even if he felt
>mercenary-a.
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>Even more of a ca-lamity for the clam.



"Skepticism's bad rap arises from the impression that, however necessary the activity, it can only be regarded as a negative removal of false claims. Not so […]. Proper debunking is done in the interest of an alternate model of explanation, not as a nihilistic exercise. The alternate model is rationality itself, tied to moral decency—the most powerful joint instrument for good that our planet has ever known.”--Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002)

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