Word: thingness
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...unsuspecting housecats are the same people who speak to children in baby voices and pat pregnant women's bellies without asking permission. Besides, even if your cat could speak, and it happened to ask for a cheeseburger, why would it spell "cheez" with a "Z?" Why? It's one thing to pretend that your cat can talk, but it's another thing to pretend that it has a debilitating speech impediment. (See TIME's Pictures of the Week...
...They’re bringing conservatives and progressives together and that’s a positive thing. That rarely ever happens, so if Fred Phelps can make it happen that’s great,” he said...
...don’t know about you, but I found it difficult to keep from rolling my eyes throughout the entire thing. And not because of what Penn said—I happen to be in complete agreement with him on this issue—but because it was clear that he believed that I (and the millions of others watching) had an obligation to listen...
...Verdict: Junk.* Okay, so one thing you will learn as soon as you're given Dunster is that people will assume you're unhappy. And granted, you may be. But there comes a point when the following interchange gets...
That's a chilling echo of what happened in the United States over the last decade. But there are important differences in the two markets. For one thing, Chinese by law must have "skin in the game." The absolute minimum down payment on a new house or apartment is 20% of the purchase price, and for most buyers it's usually closer to 30%. And a large percentage of Chinese - upwards of 40% according to some estimates - pay cash for new apartments, because in a high savings economy, housing is widely seen as a safe investment. That means, in China...