A downside of the 'every day a holy day' scheme is that there are no "holidays". A simultaneous upside and downside of no holidays is there is no gift...
Befriending T Clark is clearly the act of a generous good Samaritan. Extra stars in his crown. However, since T Clark already existed before Javi's ki...
Understand that “wedding cake” is usually a white cake in North America. In some places other kinds of pastry are served at weddings. So, all wedding ...
¡feliz cumpleaños! AKA Happy Birthday! Were I to make you a birthday cake (note the subjunctive tense indicating no such thing is going to happen sinc...
Whenever you feel the slightest distress about getting older, remember what the alternative is. Coming into contact with a caterpillar could be instan...
Say what you will and accept the consequences. Or, tailor what you say to suit the sensibilities of people who do not accept the notion of absolute fr...
No doubt a good many conservatives disliked the idea of a black Liberal president, but they were able to get on with life as we know it. Some people t...
No, it wasn't always this way. I'm 79. I'm glad that I was an idealistic young man in the 1960s and not now in these years of national decline and cli...
Says you while scrapping the bottom of the barrel of comments. In general, I'd say one should not be very impressed with human moral behavior in large...
I don't find much similarity between your interpretation of the left/right divide and what I understand of Kohlberg's stages of moral development. The...
It's difficult to even imagine an entirely--or largely--unregulated large economy. How would an economy even become successfully large without regulat...
the quote isn't precisely apropos, but its thrust is in the ballpark: "If at age 20 you are not a communist, you have no heart. If at age 30 you are n...
@"Athena". The military part of the complex has had an influence on civilian rhetoric, rituals, and practices. Language that was once used exclusively...
@"Athena" Bought the book and regret it, somewhat. There wasn't much in it that I hadn't heard about at one time or another, and the book is 17 years ...
Dante's Inferno makes me nervous. The Nine circles of hell are: Limbo (unbaptized and virtuous pagans), Lust, Gluttony, Greed, Wrath, Heresy, Violence...
@"Athena" I just came across this book on Amazon: The Complex: How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives (The American Empire Project) by Nick Turse...
I loathe Donald Trump in so many ways that it is difficult to disagree here. I'll at least say, "Not yet." Trump isn't in the same league as Adolph Hi...
OK. But would you please say more about what was it that the US copied from German / Prussian bureaucracy. Or, how was German / Prussian bureaucracy d...
A combine (mutually supporting) of the military and arms producers (corporations) which advocates for the specific interests of the military and corpo...
Trump might not be as much an aberration as left/liberal types think. Trumpism has precedents. If you look over the history of the US, particularly si...
Whether and to what extent volunteers save money for an organization is questionable. It partly depends on the effectiveness of the volunteer manager....
A bright and cheerful future! I can't wait. Climate migration is going to increase. Even communities imbued with charitable generosity in destination ...
I would be happy if governments acted in the interests of their own populations, predominantly and consistently, never mind the whole world. This conc...
I'm working on it. Of course we need collective action which has to begin here and there without evidence that everyone else will join in. It has begu...
Both of these observations are correct. Very good. The depth of soil covering much of the US (let's say north of the Ohio and Missouri Rivers) has bee...
Canada will not gain a lot of arable land, even if its territory warms up. What are the obstacles? a) The Canadian Shield, for one. The Shield is the ...
Prosperous individuals can reduce consumption across the board. Live in less space; heat less; cool less; drive less; fly less; eat less (meat from bi...
Many people are willing to donate their time and energy to civic projects. Research on volunteering finds that "over 28% of Americans formally volunte...
0 That's a good question, and one which could be asked about a number of disorders. Homosexuality, for instance, used to be a very serious problem (st...
Good idea but not new and it is entirely do-able. I was in VISTA for 2 years, back in the late 60s. It's now part of Americorps. It was a very good ex...
No doubt many children are spending far, far too much time looking at screens displaying content that was designed to engage and hold attention for pu...
Damned if I know what it is, but according to the American Psychiatry Association: ADHD became a "thing" in the 1960s. I first heard about it in 1969 ...
That does seem to be the case. Even if people--males and females both--don't live in accordance with the rules of a Quaker Sunday school, people do be...
Old as I am, I wasn't there either. However, I have objections to some of the claims about hunter gatherers: a) Sometimes the remaining hunter-gathere...
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