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RIP Diana Barnato Walker

#1 Post by themanintheseersuckersuit » Sun May 04, 2008 1:07 pm

'Atagirl' who delivered hundreds of planes during the war and was the first woman to break the sound barrier.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituar ... alker.html
Suitguy is not bitter.

feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive

The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.

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