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nothing. It's what's present and should not be that poses a problem. The lion cannot lie down with the lamb: he is impelled by nature to tear the lamb...

What's that to do with anything?

Of course it is. No. not even It's better. Except in every other big cosmopolitan city, in many of which it's worse. On several planets, but they don'...

Elected by the membership of their respective guilds/occupations? I could go for that idea! Just as justices are selected by their professional organi...

The way it's set up now, I agree. Having an 'upper' or second house to check the work of the legislature is not necessarily a bad idea: it could point...

If. This does not apply to self-imposed time limits on self-chosen goals, which is what the OP implied.

For sure. Especially as presidents have the least direct control of what wording, what particular details of constraint, what modifications and except...

So what? Why make a problem of something taking longer than you planned? Unless the delay causes cost overruns, or missing important deadlines, what d...

A policy enacted today may not show effects on the ground until two or three years in the future. The fallout from bad policies may not be felt for se...

None of the other realms really exist, but that's very much beside the point. Heaven, Earth and Hell are a descriptive analogy to the compartments of ...

Hm

Really? It's not that complicated. I express an opinion based of what I have heard and seen and you keep telling me it's ridiculous because I've been ...

What difference does that make? Lots of people have lots of opinions that have no effect whatever on the outcome.

Who wants to sit on a ticking bomb? Unfortunately, I live just north of it, so 'on top' is not an altogether inapt description.

Not much anymore. Things I used to find useful: - to divide the task into manageable sections, so that I could tackle part 1, then, having reached an ...

Naw, he's just a fleshy manifestation of the American Nightmare.

Is that a quote from the DT's? Pretty much what he's said about the constitution, the DoJ, international policy, the education system and civil libert...

It doesn't matter. If T***p gets back in the oval office, no education or any other "policy" will be implemented. The entire regime will be focused on...

Why? What's wrong with being distracted by a chance meeting, or going off on a side-track in pursuit of an incidental discovery, or finding some aspec...

When I was a kid, we sometimes bought it in a block wrapped in cellophane. It was pretty cheap compared to chocolate bars and lasted longer. We would ...

Of course not!

Who else would waste any time on this question?

I see. Very useful to know, as it makes all the difference.

That could be inconvenient when shopping for groceries or calling 911.

So, it seems, not so much an infinite number of questions, perspectives, horizons and hypotheses, so much a tail-chasing exercise. Harmless enough....

I can't imagine. But, as long as someone can, by all means, carry on!

And there discussion ends. Forever.

That's how I see it: indivisible. But then, I'm a simple-minded biped, not a philosopher.

We are biological entities, engendered and evolved in a physical environment, governed by and dependent for survival on the same physical laws as are ...

to whom?

But the stamina to type so many words must count for something.

Just substitute a middle-aged white woman in a suit... It would still be a nothing joke, but nobody would make a fuss over it.

It doesn't show. He seems already half asleep in the first frame. Any more pacific than that is comatose>dead>absent>forgotten. The cartoon would be f...

Everyone's imperfections are endless. You correct one flaw, you immediately notice another. Go back, see where it might have flown more freely, where ...

I have already said I don't like kiddie stories very much, let alone baby ones, and all the seemingly obligatory childbirth scenes are just sick-makin...

So what? They're not that much fun to look at in real life. Use a Cabbage Patch Kid and it won't bother me - cheaper and less waiting, too. Yes. Excep...

I'm very glad to know that. Changes the whole perspective. Thanks. No need for ab asurdum comparisons. Though I still cavil at lack of informed consen...

I thought so, too, but some people - coming from a law-abiding modern perspective - don't recognize the colonial setting. Originally thinking French S...

I met him once, way back in the early 80's, when they were doing a show on forensic pathology. He was utterly preoccupied with his new glare-free glas...

right now, nothing; I'm sitting here; the entertainment computer and large screen are in the warmer room, over there. At lunchtime, I watched a Nature...

That could work fine, or it can backfire. If you're too eager to get things done, you may charge at them ill-informed, without having considered the c...

It's anyone giving a speech, who has just been asked to "be more pacific", rolling his eyes at the question, internally wondering, "how in hell can I ...

No. Nor is it in any other way significant. It's a visual pun of no great impact.

I wasn't commenting on other people's views, only on the story, because I was interested in it and in you. But I won't do it any more.

Those things happen one time, for a few hours, not long days of shooting. You don't know how many rehearsals, how many 'takes' and how much waiting ar...

That's because you're a fan of that culture and familiar with that literature. As I am of English history, culture and literature. So I know where the...

Don't employ actors who don't know they're acting or don't want to. Babies have no choice. Nobody under age 5 should be used - and I mean used - for t...

I don't think it's all that crazy to read a story from the frame of reference in which one lives. If a policeman - never mind a park guard, let alone ...

I think this was my favourite. The dream imagery is beautifully rendered. Of course you have to write more - without trepidation. And if you put this ...

Wow! I've just come home after a few days' reluctant absence, and could not have wished for a better welcome. Thank you, thank you, thank you! I did t...