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Which reminds me, some of the articles in the current issue of this journal are really ground-breaking. Well, all of them, really, except for the ones that go beyond ground-breaking to be earth-shattering. And how did the idea of earth-shattering get into the lexicon, anyway? Ground-breaking I can understand. People break ground a lot, particularly in cold places where the ground freezes sometimes. But no one has ever actually seen the earth shatter, mainly because it hasn’t shattered, yet. I guess if a really big asteroid came and smacked into us, then the earth, or part of it, could get shattered. But so far as I know, the dinosaurs who actually witnessed such an earth-shattering experience didn’t speak English. Maybe Sumerian.
