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I've never had much success with them, either taking them or feeding them

If you had thought of some of the foreign words for "news," it might have cleared up your confusion: les nouvelles in French, die Nachrichten in German, etc

I used a walker after both of my spine surgeries. It seems like the PT fitted it. They were just average walkers with rubber feet. I also had crutches, but I can't remember how it all worked with the crutches and the walker.

I was under the impression that the learning curve was fairly steep.

OTOH, maybe it's a literary device.

Yet another I don't travel by air unless I just can't avoid it. I'm really lucky to live in one of the world's more desirable places so I dont feel a strong need to get away from it very much.

Wasn't the emphasis on surrogacy intentional? Everyone living a fake, virtualized existence?

I love the sound of Mandarin spoken by western non-native speakers. It makes me want to run out and sign up for a class in Mandarin.

The world very often isn't the you way you would have thought it should be.

What was the point of your story? Living in San Francisco, with such a large population of foreign-born Chinese, one learns to roll with cultural differences. If you weren't able to do that, it would be a difficult place to live. There are plenty of rude, bad-mannered American small business owners.

As is most international diplomacy.

Of course it is. I'm a lawyer, so I'm in the habit of using weasel words.

Your post is only semi-coherent. Out of bed too early.?

That is a legal fiction that a But it can be argued that Communist China was the successor to Imperial China, having all of the sovereign rights formerly held by Imperial China.

The reverse is true. Google "biological species concept."

It surprises me that we think of Neanderthals as a separate species. Under the biological species concept, if two populations can successfully reproduce, they are of the same species.

I think I have been to more states than I haven't been to, but I'm not going to list them.

But he has severed communication. That's the same thing as cancelling. I wouldn't wait around for him.

That goes without saying

It would be a lot of fun to spend time with you in Starkville. Don't be surprised if I take you up on it.

Actually, I used to visit rural Mississippi regularly. My niece taught at the veterinary school at Mississippi State and my mother lived in Starkville. It was kind of a fun place to visit. I always stayed in this ancient hotel. I would get their best room, which cost next to nothing. They had a very good men's clothing store there. So I always went shopping there when I visited. The guy who took care of me was this studly, good-looking young blond. He would pull stuff off the racks that he thought I would like, I would try it on, and he would say, "I LIKE that on you," and he had made another sale. My mother didn't understand that the interaction was mostly a flirtation and thought I bought clothes like that all the time. I enjoyed the strangeness of it - heavy flirting with a studly blond southern boy.

I was in Mississippi in late September once - it was absolutely sweltering. We were driving around site-seeing, I think we were going to Vicksburg that day. We were on a road that was an attraction because the trees grew together to form a tunnel. We stopped at a store/roadside stand and bought ice-cold cokes in bottles. An opinionated old guy owned the store, and he and my father got into a discussion about WWII. The discussion turned into a little disagreement and they ended up raising their voices with each other. The storeowner backed down. The whole thing seemed like something straight out of Faulkner.

My partner was very involved with sculpture for a few years. He had a few pieces cast in bronze, using a traditional lost-wax process. Gosh, it was an involved process. The pieces are beautiful though.

If you don't want to become infatuated, stop feeding the infatuation.

I visited a catfish farm once. I didn't smell anything unusual. Driving by a feedlot doesn't seem to put people off from beef.