Minneapolis is such a great city, with so much going for it. Why, oh why did we allow this monstrosity of an airport to eat up so much valuable land? Does anyone really think it appropriate, or patriotic, that our airport makes it impossible for any of the dead soldiers at Fort Snelling to rest in peace? The Tim Pawlentys and Michelle Bachmans of this state (oh-so-righteous, self-serving, selfish, and voraciously ambitious) won't rest until they've paved Paradise, and made our lovely chain-of-lakes into a massive airport parking ramp for the tourists heading for the Mall of America.
So please, folks (anyone out there?), when the issue of airport expansion comes up again (and it will, oh it will), don't let a bunch of fast-talking chamber-of-commerce boosters con us into allowing that to happen, again. Let's not make the same mistake we made twenty years ago. It's time to start talking about where to move the airport, or else we might as well dissolve the city council right now, fire the mayor and put the whole thing under the tender ministrations of the Metropolitan Airport Commission, who no doubt have our best interests at heart anyway. Don't they?
Carol Bly, who
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- From 1700s Italy, "dilettante" originally meant "lover of the arts," but became a pejorative when professionalism took hold during the 18th century. A dilettante became a mere lover of art as opposed to one who earned a living from it. Today, the word refers to a poseur, or one pretending to be an artist. synonyms: dabbler, sciolist, dilettanteish, dilettantish, sciolistic Usage Examples “It’s better up here away from the phonies and the dilettantes. Here I can do what I want and no one comes to sneer. You’re not a sneerer, are you?” - Flowers for Algernon ‘There were no scientists in Stuart England,’ we are told, ‘and all the men we have grouped together under that heading were in their varying degrees dilettantes.’ - The Invention of Science Charles wasn’t a dilettante; he was serious about the breeding and created his own new lines of pigeons. - Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith source: https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/dilettante
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