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The right wing pursues its narrow goals at all cost. In the case of global warning, for instance, it's the immediate-profit motive I'm reminded of the cartoon where two panicky canoeists who have lost their paddle drift toward the head of a waterfall when one of them says, "Let's do something , even...

In order to avoid superfluous verbiage, me, I believe that such an expression, "It's my opinion that...", "I believe that...", etc, is unnecessary because it's my opinion that it goes without saying that if you didn't believe it I think you wouldn't say it

Bob I felt you were being ignored. But if this doesn't work maybe it will give you an idea

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Then how about "record"

verb: register electronically (Example: "They recorded her singing")
verb: make a record of; set down in permanent form

This might not help much but it might give you an idea

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...in this age when we're bombarded by the media. For instance every time I set aside a "How Stuff Works" in a folder I had created for their storage, I think, "I've just got to go back and read this one." So far I've accumulated nearly 100 I had broached the subject before and received many interes...

"Transcription" might work

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In British English, the usual form of the idiom is "the gift of the gab".--Erik

Interesting, as in my 78 years as an erstwhile Leftpond writer I had never once heard the expr in that form

hs: While I realize that in the short run nuclear has been shown to be better than coal, the problem of accumulating waste will eventually change all that. In just a few generations those of us who survive will be born with twelve fingers and will glow in the dark

Better with lime but a bit too dry for me. Anyone wishing to discuss the Brew, I am dalehileman@verizon.net and evidently don't care who knows it

karuna (KUH-roo-na) noun Loving compassion. [From Sanskrit karuna (compassion).] "Once we experience and feel this inter-dependence of all living beings, we will cease to hurt, humiliate, exploit and kill another... From another site where one of the recent threads had to do with treatment of animal...

Hi Phil, in Leftpond "petting" has meant heavy necking and groping for as long as I can remember, and I'm really old

Has anyone been to Advanced Search lately? They've made changes but evidently not all to the good. For instance, you are now limited to only three OR entries Incidentally taking this opportunity to express most heartfelt thanks to Phil for all his work. For what it's worth, which however isn't very ...

Bob I had hoped you might miss me