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• Tuesday, January 1, 2008 02:36 PM

  @WT - It is better to jaw-jaw than to war-war.

  Respectfully, L.W.M., your take on the necessity of our entry into WWI isn't persuasive for a number of reasons having nothing to do with your assertion that WT would avoid war even when it's offered unequivocally...

  Bebop has it about right, as usual. Avoid being adversarial if you can....

  Sure. It is better to jaw-jaw than to war-war.

  QUOTATION: To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

  ATTRIBUTION: WINSTON CHURCHILL, remarks at a White House luncheon, June 26, 1954. His exact words are not known, because the meetings and the luncheon that day were closed to reporters, but above is the commonly cited version.

  His words are quoted as “It is ‘better to jaw-jaw than to war-war,’” in the sub-heading on p. 1 of The New York Times, June 27, 1954, and as “To jaw-jaw always is better than to war-war” on p. 3.

  The Washington Post in its June 27 issue, p. 1, has “better to talk jaw to jaw than have war,” and The Star, Washington, D.C., p. 1, a slight variation, “It is better to talk jaw to jaw than to have war.”

  Lynn Margulis Blog Tour at Pharyngula. Fascinatiing:

  Sample question:

  Prof. Margulis,

  What significance do you attatch to epigenetic processes in evolution?

  Posted by: SteveF | March 12, 2007 9:03 AM

  http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2007/03/lynn_margulis_blog_tour.php

  Amazing!

  And here's one for the linguists!

  Category: Creationism

  If you've ever been curious about the intelligent design of language, here's a new one for you: Edenics.

  Here you will discover that ALL human words contain forms of the Edenic roots within them. These proto-Semitic or early Biblical Hebrew words were programmed into our common ancestors, Adam and Eve, before the language dispersion, or babble at the Tower of Babel -- which kickstarted multi-national human history.

  Oh, joy. They're after all of our sciences.

  Previous entry: Creationist Physics 101

  They won't quit.

  http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/

  —L.W.M. Read L.W.M.'s other letters
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