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dubdobdeesyzygy: from the Greek participle sun and verb zugein, meaning two entities linked together while maintaining their separate existence... "get me rewrite!" :D
its astronomical meaning -- which i actually sort of knew* -- is a bit different and more specialised: but a.cockburn just used it as a joking way to link opposed squads of paranoid obsessives, viz truth3rs and b!rthers, as a combined shaping force in current US politics
*the alignment of three or more celestial bodies in the same gravitational system along a straight line: i knew it (tho had forgot) bcz it's the name of a 1973 SF novel by Michael G. Coney, which I read but didn't much like in the mid-70s...
its astronomical meaning -- which i actually sort of knew* -- is a bit different and more specialised: but a.cockburn just used it as a joking way to link opposed squads of paranoid obsessives, viz truth3rs and b!rthers, as a combined shaping force in current US politics
*the alignment of three or more celestial bodies in the same gravitational system along a straight line: i knew it (tho had forgot) bcz it's the name of a 1973 SF novel by Michael G. Coney, which I read but didn't much like in the mid-70s...
