The horse trick reminds me of 440… only with out the wake up shit… and it was a toyota not a horse…hmmm… maybe not.
The Bomb
60 years ago today the US Govt. dropped the “Little Boy” over Hiroshima, the first ever atomic bomb tested and used on a civilian population. The act of using the bomb probably succeeded in ending the war with the Japanese 10 days later with their surrender, however, there has been many a debate as to the morality of the use on civilians and if it was even necessary.
Regardless I believe we should take a moment today to remember those that we’ve lost in our current war, WW II and all our wars of the past – civilian and military. Take a moment to check out:
Wikipedia’s extensive article on the history, events, aftermath and morality of the bombings and a professor of modern philosophy at Tokyo’s Catholic University story of The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Engrish!
So some random thoughts today while reading some website and the comments made. A poster claimed that “Irregardless of the validity of the data…” and I thought…
Irregardless isn’t really a word. I guess it’s gained popularity but if you think about it… it’s an improper yoking of the words irrespective and regardless. It is no different from words with redundant affixes like debone and unravel – [ (de-)bone which both mean to separate from the bone and (un-)ravel mean to spearate or undo ]. Flammable and inflammable both mean the same thing, too.
To go further with our Engrish… an interesting thing is that cleave means both to split apart and to adhere together.
Words are so meaningless. Especially sentences.
Here’s how some people butcher the English language:
www.engrish.com