Ditto. English stole "detto" from Italian in the 17th century (those damned cultural appropriators, rotten cultural imperialists, filthy cultural thie...
Throw in abuse and you have the Trump program. Waste, because what is being tossed into the wood chipper are real assets providing real benefits to Am...
You probably know this already, but one of the goals of USAID used to be "capacity building". It's the 'give a man a fishing pole' over giving him a f...
At last, a serious, moving movie about pigs! "GUNDA" can be streamed for FREE on Tubi It's about pig-motherhood, with cameo appearances of other barny...
That's a very good question. I suspect that few of the conservatives who are doing the cozying up have thought through to the conclusion that they are...
Whatever I said in the past, this is what I think is true about Americans : Discrimination by the dominant group against people who are considered sub...
Just one quick addition: The alt-right most wants to destroy the gains which the 'old-left/liberals' achieved over the decades. Getting rid of DEI is ...
I just got up, haven't finished coffee yet and you are asking me to defend the rotten corpse of leftism, so named by this bizarro world Nick Land. I h...
High-level administrators can be singled out because they have a public record of statements--but that's a small number. Most federal employees are ge...
By share of the budget, wages for the federal workforce are between 4.5% and 6.6% of the federal budget, depending on how you count employees. There a...
@"fdrake" Riding herd on this cattle drive must be one of the more thankless jobs for which one doesn't get paid. You've been on the trail for a long ...
The rank and file of nations claiming The Western Tradition have never read much of classical literature or whatever counted as The Great Books at any...
Good news! There are many thick branches of varied thought within that intellectual tradition, and many of them are as good as gold. Find the most rea...
I'm not at all convinced that a "classical education", as worthwhile as it might be, will turn out to be a great benefit to its recipients -- in 2025 ...
Before long you'll be bitching and carping about not being consulted in your conception and birth, as some people do who consider being born a misfort...
What invincible ignorance makes them is very difficult to enlighten. Invincible ignorance is not a virtue of any sort and might be a sin IF it is deli...
Of course we have to ask 'what do we mean by 'educated'. But however we define it, there will certainly be people who are not even educated to begin w...
Liberally educated people are susceptible to offense -- perhaps (but not certainly) less than religiously (fundamentalist madrasas, fundamentalist chr...
Some criteria might be how high the offended person's blood pressure rises, how much their pulse increases, how much cortisol is excreted, how much th...
I haven't thought about Emerson recently (decades) but if Google's summary of transcendentalism is accurate, then: So why do you ask? What is your que...
2000+ posts in 2 months indicates a lot of one-liner posts. There's no rule... it's not a crime... you won't get banned (for that, anyway)... but stil...
I'm not a member of PETA or vegan or vegetarian. I like meat, milk, butter, and cheese, I am grateful that cows provide all these things. Ditto for pi...
The Quran is a symbol. Burning the Quran is a symbol. A flag is a symbol. Burning a flag is a symbol. Burning a symbol does not harm the (alleged) rea...
The various procedures which result in cows giving us a lot of milk are such that major animal welfare ethical issues have arisen long before we get t...
No, not way before Christ. There were, as far as I know, no such things as "bitter troglodytes" because they lived before the Dawn of Aspiration. They...
Orange Kool Ade (spelled Kool Aid after the aforementioned Great Uprising) in sheep bladders is Donald Trump's very own color. Urine or bile combines ...
Back in the early 1950s, the milk bottles from the small dairy that delivered milk had a small section at the top of the bottle where cream collected....
Wait a minute: cream is water and fat globules, and fat is lighter and less dense than water. That's why oil slicks are on the surface and not on the ...
Coffee is good for you; drink more coffee. But "heavy cream" doesn't reference coffee and isn't good for you, though in itself it is very good. "Heavy...
At this point, "natural" and "nature" has become hackneyed and practically meaningless by being used and misused for so many purposes. No news to you....
Turning Gaza into a "riviera", meaning a plutocratic playground for pernicious parasites, is an insult to the residents there, of course, and it's a b...
@"SSU" The size of the national debt does concern me. I understand that deficit spending keeps the economy afloat, particularly, consumption. people d...
There is zero chance that DOGE / Musk will go after United Health Care, et al. The sort of government spending that will be sacrificed are USAID, Corp...
Trump won the popular vote by a little over 2 million votes out of a total of 152 million votes. That's not a mandate by a landslide vote by any stret...
Canada is a fine place, and may it continue as a sovereign nation forever. Even so, I don't quite see Canada as the escape hatch for anyone's existent...
I also asked Gemini / Google about year to year budget reductions. It said: AI Overview Yes, the federal budget has been reduced year-to-year in the p...
The US paid off the huge WWII national debt through a combination of economic growth (a boom), higher rates of taxation (especially on top earners), a...
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