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January 28, 2022 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast

8:27 pm

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On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.

 
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"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News

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  • wayne
    January 30, 2022 at 7:21 am

    “Rabbit Seasoning” (1952)
    [pronoun trouble]
    https://youtu.be/6e1hZGDaqIw
    2:04

  • BtB’s Original Mark
    January 30, 2022 at 8:36 am

    Wayne – With Bugs Bunny I expected a good non-postmodern laugh.

    But noooo! I’m sucked back into the variation of the Simulation which includes 543 pronouns.

    Thanks Wayne for wrecking my morning coffee buzz while looking out at frozen sheets of pristine snow covered farmland.

    I guess I’ll return to listening to that PKD novel you previously linked to. Like PKD, I will accept the experience of radical instability in the boundaries that define me and my corner of this awesome frozen world.

    And now that I’m back in the Simulation, I can genuinely say I take offense at this heteronormative Bugs Bunny video. And please don’t reply with the lame excuse that it’s an animation from 1952.

    And Wayne, don’t take my WOKE criticism personally. I, myself, like every good citizen now participate in regular confessions regarding our Non-Woke thought crimes (or misdemeanors). I recently confessed that I am intimidated by the sheer size of the spectrum of gender identities. The PC police will probably jump on me for this, but this whole choose/name your pronouns thing is becoming too much for me to handle. In my defense, I’ve been given dispensation since I suffer from face blindness which falls under the Americans with Disability Act. For the record, I have nothing against those who want to change their gender. More power to them. However unfair issues arise when people around me who are genetically XX or XY change their pronouns on a whim. These ‘thems’ then expect everyone to cater to their choices. I’m sorry, but no, with my face blindness condition I cannot see the new gender cues that apparently the rest of society can.

    But the biggest problem is this whole them/theirs thing. These are plural pronouns. The problem is simply one of confusion. Using plural pronouns for singular persons is confusing, and irritating when reading or listening. Are they talking about one person, or more than one? Sometimes, who knows!
    Now, let me be clear, I’m 100% against bigotry in any form whatsoever, period. I’m suggesting that we simply come up with a new word/pronoun for those who don’t want to use he/she. I honestly don’t see the big deal about coming up with a new word. But, even then, trying to force choosing/naming one’s pronouns all the time is not something I can mentally deal with. No offense to anyone, but just no. This dog is too disabled for those new tricks

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