Mongrel

Men who start small businesses are twice as likely to fail as women. Yet Steve Jobs was a man. True.

(Y) Insightful. Marriage is the hub of the whole thing.

It's not unknowable. Likely unknown, though.

Lottery winners are chosen randomly. A computerized random number generator uses the quartz crystal clock. In these cases "random" means a choice was ...

True.

Those shoes will deform your toes. It's crazy!

I don't know. I'm definitely not the person to answer that question. :)

I don't either. I used to have this half-assed theory about psychological differences. But I'm Gen-X. In my lifetime the old ways were mostly gone, bu...

You're right. Your aesthetics are your business. So do you disapprove of men in drag? I remember being sensitive to this. Instinctively, I wore a dres...

This probably isn't exactly the speech she gave, but it was along these lines:

There definitely are biological differences. Historically, black women in America allowed white men to see that the behavior of white women wasn't nat...

Are you fucking kidding me?

Awesome! What's the point? That culture has nothing to do with gender disparity?

Sounds like the voice of frustration to me. I know Unenlightened gets pissed off if one focuses on the why instead of the what.. but especially with s...

Put down the crack pipe, Agustino.

Mexico ain't paying for shit.

Oh so you're not paying to send them? What a jip.

Why not? And what jungle are you talking about? The Congo? The Amazon? Specify, dude. I might want to go if you're paying for the trip.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=919Gt1SczVY

Eh.. There's been a statistically significant rise in IQ's of American children and teenagers through the 20th Century. Your reasoning binds you to th...

Could be.

I had a boyfriend who had the foot-fetish. That's one I really don't get.

He knocked a maid down the steps one time.

What I don't get is: what's up with Germany? Why so many great philosophers?

I should have quoted this in the OP. It's the passage I was pondering. The more I read of GoM, the more clear it becomes that N is saying that moralit...

I've never been to South Beach. Is it cool? I don't think they have the delivery system to reach the US yet. I keep thinking: why isn't this an Asian ...

Blast radius of a N Korea's latest bomb: https://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/soma-destruction.png

Matthew thought the bedside Bible thing Was probably a step too far. He sipped his coffee, Trying separate the poem from the poet.

I invited you to suspend judgment of the world for a few seconds and try to understand how it comes to be the way it is. Instead you berate me for ber...

The perspective of a fellow world-citizen: you've never been like me. When I was in my 20's I was thinking all the same things you are now, but I was ...

N mentions original sin, but doesn't explain that it was originally a Greek idea, not Jewish. The concept, as portrayed in Agamemnon, is inherited res...

Illustrations! What a great idea!

His favorite topic was his right to public funds. Nowhere, even in the basement, was there any trace of the truth: That he was eating murder and famin...

Mr Turtlehead imagined that his face must be purple when dragon fumes of practiced rage shook his jowls. "You're as impotent as I am!" he shouted, Pal...

Mr Turtlehead had not been blind at birth. An unconscious yearning floated below the waves. He wanted someone to say that he'd been tortured to blindn...

You should write one now. Just about how you feel.

Honestly, the first time I composed poetry, I was working at AT&T and my stomach was hurting. I wrote out how I felt... no attempt to be poetic, just ...

What's something useful? A spatula?

Thanks. It's not slimy. It's dry and dusty.

He thought of an antique chair. "Wasn't that black lacquer?" he wondered. But as he closed his eyes nothing changed. His soul was the sound of oblivio...

Mr Turtlehead turned out the light and let his fingertips brush over the bible. But it was no use. Kicked and scolded like a dog all his life, He coul...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Poi5x0E2CM

Shut up. I'm poetizing.

Mr Turtlehead sighed and thought about walking out to the pines. "I would so love to be close to nature." he announced. The bartender looked up at him...

OK. Thanks!

Nietzsche is translating history. Why would you disagree with that?

The ghost of Christmas past appeared to Mr Turtlehead and showed him an urn. "So small an urn contains all my ashes?" asked Mr Turtlehead. "It contain...

Anyone who knew the Turtleheads kept a bible at their bedside thought they understood the joke. But it was more private than they realized. And if the...

Mrs Turtlehead's ancestors were from a northern tribe whose faces were blue. They would run naked into battle, screaming and waving their arms like mo...

N is saying that a lot of the words we use to describe good and evil come from ancient societies. The Roman military was owned and operated by Roman a...