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On 4/2/13 1:04 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 02 Apr 2013 12:12:56 -0400, J Herring
wrote:

On Mon, 01 Apr 2013 22:57:49 -0400, JustWaitAFrekinMinute wrote:

On 4/1/2013 10:52 PM, wrote:

Hush. Greg is doing a great job of making the asshole guy look like his handle. And, I've got to
admit I've learned some things from his side of the posts. Just don't read the Urine stuff, unless
you're really in to stupidity.

I am actually learning a lot myself. It takes a lot of homework when
you need to be able to cite every statement you make.

I think this may be the equivalent of getting a poli sci degree at
most schools and it is free. ;-)

I do thank Al for getting all of the government resources we now have
available online. Things that used to require going to a library and
thumbing through hundreds of Dewey cards is not a few clicks away.

I don't know why I feel obligated to do all of this but it may just be
that intellectual curiosity thing Harry talks about.

Speaking of intellectual curiosity (I find how this particular topic has
diverged has made it incredibly tedious and boring to me, though I read
some of it), I googled one of my favorite people for the first time and
learned a lot about it. Neil deGrasse Tyson. I knew some things about
him, but, Holy Batman! He's a real student of the liberal arts, with a
Bachelor of Arts in physics from Harvard in 1980 and his graduate work
at the University of Texas at Austin, where he earned a Master of Arts
in astronomy in 1983. Physics and astronomy, two of the liberal arts.