User talk:John Stephenson/Archive 6
thanks for the help
Just noticed you are ticking off the unchecklisted ones too. :) Chris Day 09:00, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
- No problem. Also I've noticed that this page has a number of non-articles there. As I've said before, people trying to insert weird stuff on the wiki tend not to subpaginate. John Stephenson 09:01, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
- A good way to catch it before it enters the stream. Chris Day 09:02, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for the U.S. political help
It sometimes helps to have eyes on terminology, especially when a well-intentioned "native" author is working from journalistic sources rather than direct experience in the operations of politics. You have a good eye.
While I do have considerable direct political experience, I learn things from visitors. I'll never forget the observation of a friend, Swedish-born and European raised, now living in the U.S. and indeed teaching U.S. history as she finishes her doctorate. I was playing tourguide in Washington, DC, where I lived for about 40 years and know rather well, and we had first visited the Lincoln Memorial (which still has an emotional effect on me like few others). We walked two blocks to the Vietnam War memorial, "the wall", and Pia Kate commented "how appropriate these two monuments are so close!"
Puzzled, I asked her to explain, and she asked "weren't these the two times your country had the greatest internal instability?" One might make a couple of other suggestions, but it was a profound insight. Howard C. Berkowitz 07:38, 3 February 2009 (UTC)