It’s important (to me, at least) that actually composed created things don’t drift off into the land of Author Unknown. Like some people think “Edelweiss” is a fucking folksong.

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Be advised the movie is clearly, obviously inspired by Achilles in Vietnam, and Odysseus in America both by Jonathan Shay. Strangely no one has thought to ask Nolan about this, and very very few have even mentioned it in reviews.

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I illustrated the various models of international systems: hegemonic stability, stable balance of power, bi-polar world, etc. to an IR class using my parents' cats as examples. No doubt the students more familiar with cats were a step ahead of the others in the class.

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I appreciate the need and I follow the rules, but I wish that someone might have devised a better way to refer to offensive words besides "the [opening letter] word," which both sounds very grade-school-y and, I think, invests the offending word with more magic than it might otherwise have had.

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We're all trying to be careful with our language, so as not to offend, or not to lose federal funding for talking about paragraph transitions. To help you out, here's a worksheet to guide you in swapping out troublesome phrases for real, historical eel expressions. 🗃️🧪

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