Dr Wingnut

Day: August 29, 2006

  • Metaphor

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    Without metaphor the handling of general concepts such as culture and civilization becomes impossible.Johan Huizinga

  • Happy Anniversary to the Big Easy

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    There are four stages of denial:It won’t happen.If it does happen, it won’t happen to me.If it does happen to me, it won’t be that bad.If it happens to me and it’s bad, there’s nothing I can do to stop it anyway.Erick Holdeman, director of emergency managmement for Seattle’s King County, in Time, Katrina: One…