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Royalfan5

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  1. Since I consider Larry McMurtry one of our greatest living Americans, and as such was inspired to be a book collector, I felt like we should have a non-fiction reading thread. Currently I’m reading Pandora’s Box  by Jorn Leonard, which is a WWI history just translated into English by one of Germany’s top historians. I’m also starting on A.G. Hopkins’ American Empire, with high hopes.

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  2. 20 minutes ago, SuingToGetAMessageBoard? said:

    Because it denies others the opportunity to hear a message. 

     

     I went to see a number of speakers on campus when I was a student, and invariably there would be somebody standing up and yelling their position in the middle of a presentation. I’ll listen to your retarded views, but please can you wait until the guy we paid $100,000 to speak and who I waited 4 hours in line for tickets is done?

    That’s when it pays to be able to distribute the written word then, where people can consume it at their time and pace. Too much emphasis is placed on the act of speaking rather than the distribution of thought. 

  3. 7 minutes ago, TahoeHorn said:

    They could have just rerouted the Mississippi for a fraction of the cost.   But then Morgan City (or wherever) would be the port.

    Your going to have to move all the soy crushers and grain terminals then too, along with the rail heads.

  4. Well I'll disagree without about levees for New Orleans, as the port remains very useful, and a lot of out commodity exports flow out through the gulf, especially with the new Panamax vessels.

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