Posted on 03/21/2013 8:04:13 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Card’s essays on this were posted on ornery.org and may still be there. Very thoughtful and reasoned, he’s no hater.
faggot comes from the word of English meatballs
fags are the English word from cigs.
I’ve used foggots for years and fags as I;m from there ad I couldn;t careless about the turd poking PC
BUMP!
The definitions I have read include a bundle of sticks or twigs or a cigarette.
Card is one of my faves. Like Alan Dean foster. Smart people.
My two favorite authors are WEB Griffin and the late Robert Jordan.
Therein lies the fundamental nature of many modern problems.
You're right. His opinion essays are very reasoned. I wonder if he even considers himself a Democrat anymore.
There is an affablity or the likeness to that in Card and Foster that I relate to. Jordan is all right. But he comes off more as trying too hard. Just my thought. Also digged Jack Chalker. Not that I know anything. Stephen R. Donaldson. Boxed sets.
“I wonder if he even considers himself a Democrat anymore. “
I spoke with him a year, year and a half ago. He’s still a Democrat.
Food.
The Obama admin has released a study that being gay is a health risk .
75% of all carpet munchers are fat.
When aliens come to earth after we annihilate ourselves for a bit of archeology, there will be copies of Enders Game found as well as refrences to OSC in whatever records remain. His work is pervasive. What the will not find are any such references to the DC people/management/writers/artists of today.
I’d say OSC wins in a walk.
I've driven past here many a time. Ironic, because of fags we've lost our bearings.
How odd, I thought. Then I heard her family speaking German.
Is this the same company?
Yes it does. A fact made clear in the miltary description of bundles of sticks and brushwood to fill trenches/moats as "fascines".
Ftom this the uses was extended to a bundle of anything, such as minced meat.
However use of "faggot" ro refer to homosexualists only dates from USAian usage in the early 20th Century. Which is too late to assert a Mediæval connexion.
Faggots are also a small bunch of sticks. Just look at Wikipedia and you will see it comes from middle English - and has nothing whatsoever to do with gays. More oppression fantasties from the gay left...
A review of Cart’s essays would reveal his condemnation of legislating from the bench, not the content of the legislation.
Card has written some excellent stuff, such as Ender and the Alvin Maker series.
But then he also wrote a multi-book retelling of the Book of Mormon as SF, which unless (possibly) you are Mormon is essentially unreadable. IMO, of course.
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