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He or she becomes the gender-neutral "horsh." The dative her or him becomes "herm." By adding herm and horsh to English we resolve this problem.

When I lived in the former Yugoslavia breakfast meant two shots of powerful home-made brandy. I can't do that here in the US because people think you've got a real drinking problem if you smell...

I like Heliopan and I also like B+W, which is owned by Leica. I also use Canon filters, which are not so scratch-resistent but they are a lot cheaper and are good optically.  I'm not going to waste...

If Hitler had not been a nutcase they wouldn't have started the war. The Germans could have manufactured their way to prosperity and domination of Europe. To say Germany could have easily won the...

A digital camera is essentially a scanner in a convenient package. And since I don't have a flatbed scanner shooting dupes of my dad's old prints is the way to go. Copying prints works pretty well....

First of all, total American casualties for the entire war numbered under 491,000, and that includes wounded.  In 1942 Rommel returned from Tunisia and confronted Hitler on several issues. First...

My father was a surgeon in the 91st Evacuation Hospital. The participated in the Normandy landing, operating onboard ship the first three days and then going ashore. My father shot photos when he...

I've got a tsunami siren outside my back window. Same siren as I heard in the videos of the Japanese tsunami.

While Croatian doesn't have "peach," the language does have "breskva," the Croatian word for the fruit. In English we have a lot of foreign words which mean a color but not much else. What the hell...

Argentina had purchased bombs from the US but there was some issue about the fuses, so a lot of bombs weren't exploding. One of the sailors who got the Victoria Cross was key in the recovery of an...

Kennedy spoke OK German. Bush spoke pretty good Spanish. It's possible Obama speaks Indonesian, as he went to school in that country. I don't believe he speaks an African language, although it's...

I think it was back before 2007. Mostly I was banned for saying rude things about a certain ethnic group. Not krauts. But I can do a search on my old login and find things I said, most of which...

I've been banned probably 12 times. Maybe more. But that was before Phil Askey sold it. It's much more tolerant of crazy stuff now.

The Gilded Loon, awarded to the top ranter.

Doesn't matter who is in charge. It was an untenable position. Now there's talk that Russia is going to loose the Far East to China. Not in a war, but to economic reality.

This is a movie which has all sorts of interpretations about class struggle, about the plight of the middle class American male, about psychological problems. Spielberg is asked about what the film...

I'm used to hearing the two words together, which is probably redundancy for the sake of emphasis. From the research I just did gabacho was first used in Spain in 1530 to denote French people. Now...

Duel was Spielberg's first feature length film and he made it in one week on a tiny budget. He was 24. It's a great film. Dennis Hopper stars as the harried salesman with much on his mind. The...

There is believed to be a lot oil in that region. That's why the Argies are rattling the saber again.

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