No, I usually have it alone - unless you count Madam Secretary. Anyway, it's hard to drink through an N95 mask disguised as a parrot's beak. (But it m...
Of course not. But a great many other species are going extinct, faster every DAY! Whatever is left of the human race, after the collapse, will strugg...
We had a German Shepherd a long time ago, who had four pups. One of them died within the first day. We buried it, but she kept digging it up and bring...
That, and also: motivations are invariably mixed. - there are many factors and influences, investments and and interests in a human life. So are thoug...
IOW: Whatever you do, whyever you think you're doing it, somebody's going to call it self-interest. They tyewll you you don't understand your own moti...
Yes. And yet, this is the world as it currently functions, and this is the one in which people have to face the present existential crises. Nope. Phys...
It costs a lot of money to build a plant; more to build the pipeline from the coast to the dry areas, plus operating and maintenance costs. A lot of c...
Because the more ways a word can be interpreted, the less utility it has in communicating clear ideas. If a word is made to stand for everything, it c...
There are different ways to interpret 'benefit'. The people who want to make a case for essential human selfishness can stretch the word to mean anyth...
I made the mistake of ordering the entire series of Strargate Atlantis. *sigh* Wraiths come, shooting, somebody gets killed, one of the main character...
I suppose not, if the mother keeps taking care of it into reproductive age and beyond. But how does the mother know to navigate the world to give her ...
It doesn't matter what the coinage looks like; any medium of exchange, in order to be generally accepted and used, needs an issuing agency that can st...
I do! I do! So does Larken Rose, since currency is issued and regulated by government. In case he wants to rethink his position, I recommend a reading...
No, that's not how morality works. When it works. Who determines the "ought to"? Who obeys it, under what conditions? Who disobeys it, under what cond...
This has been, in many situations, an important survival mechanism. I remember a short story we read in GR5, of which I don't recall the title, but it...
So do I. Unfortunately, I can't volunteer at the library anymore, but we still give away books every summer. Utopia, atm. Of course, the more i goof h...
Not could - is doing so. Rising sea level Guess what all these weather upheavals are doing to human populations! 5 facts on climate migrants How water...
I'm doing the part I feel capable of doing. At this time of life, that doesn't amount to much: feed stray cats, grow tomatoes, reduce my carbon footpr...
I suppose because I still have a tiny spark of optimism left: I still have some dim flicker of hope that if we acknowledge the truth of our times, we ...
Victories of the way of love and truth is what I questioned, and your response was a bunch of terribly destructive wars, in which neither love nor tru...
Indeed. And the US one has improved its provisions for equality of citizens under the law. But it has not guaranteed translating those improvements in...
How did the brain evolve to its present complexity? Where did it begin? I don't think a human baby would live very long outside the womb if all it had...
That way you can pick out all the cherries from the present and prove to your own satisfaction that they are better cherries than the coconuts of the ...
Make up your mind what you're measuring, human evolution or access to satellites? They don't progress in the time-frame or scale. At what points in hi...
OK You have a minute and a half Take all the time the universe will give you. Just don't expect me to believe we're bred better now than we were 10,00...
Of course that's true. Equally of bad kings and good presidents, bad presidents and good kings; honest preachers and corrupt judges, corrupt preachers...
That one man is the one the entire nation, according its its acknowledged, sworn-by and much vaunted constitution, by its established electoral proces...
That's in a whole different category from political systems and ideologies. All of the same drives exist the rest of the animal world that exist in hu...
It's a survival machine. In order to survive, it requires information; it must construct a mental model of its world. It must be able to rely on the c...
I don't. In fact, I consider civilization the wrong turn in human evolution and the invention of money and religion the two worst ideas of civilizatio...
This one's a disappointment (in my book, a damp squib compromise, but if he died in office, you'd have an insurrection - at best) and the last one was...
They would kill or abandon defective children. Your code of law and ethics do not apply to that culture. The Spartans were not unique in this practice...
That would apply more to Athens, which was both, than Sparta, which was militaristic, but ... um... more spartan in lifestyle. they outlawed currency ...
We could. That's exactly why the lusters after power, wealth and supremacy so strenuously and so often successfully oppose any attempt at rule by reas...
And as we all do, every day, both as individuals and as groups. They also conquered foreign lands whose gods had to be accommodated, assimilated, or s...
Wishful fantasy. If the greed-driven corporate economy and the deceitful, infighting, xenophobic government of an interplanetary empire is exactly lik...
To me, it's always just seemed unimaginably cruel. It helps keep things straight in one's mind to refrain from stuffing too much meaning into one litt...
He started out pessimistic and suspicious. He ended up optimistic, in control and finally prepared to be happy. I'm too old to enlist in an army. Plus...
Word can transmit facts. Nothing compels or impels them to do so. They're just tools, to be used as the competent user intends, or unpredictably, if t...
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