"(I'm a newbie here, but not to life. Don't even think of imposing your seniority on me.)"
Sic'em, FR has a few "old media" members.
19 posted on 09/26/2004 8:01:35 AM PDT by Ursus arctos horribilis
("It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!" Emiliano Zapata 1879-1919)
"the survival value of intelligence is that it allows us to extinct a bad idea, before the idea extincts us."- Karl Popper
The survival of an idea or ideas on Free Republic is dependent upon rigorous, ferocious and frenetic examination and refutation
Teddy Roosevelt once wrote about the legendary toothed fishes of South America. "They will rend and devour alive any man or beast". "Piranhas," TR determined, "are the most ferocious fish in the world."
Free Republic, Natural Selection and where the 'Fittest Ideas' Survive
25 posted on 09/26/2004 10:13:24 AM PDT by Helms
(nu-ance : [French, from Old French, from nuer, to shade, cloud, from nue, cloud, from Vulgar Latin ])
