We're having spelling problems here. I'm all for "irradiating" Sharia Law, if that would also "eradicate" it. Spelling. Democratic for demographic. I ...
Not the picture per se (which is attractive and features a voluptuous pose); the hip part is the decision to run the picture as part fo the swimsuit i...
@"Praxis": The overall effect is quite attractive. It wasn't all that long ago that American women were a lot more covered up for public swimming than...
I personally don't much care what Sports Illustrated does with its pages, but one can imagine several low cost PR INTENDED benefits: it looks progress...
How about automating mysticism? We could have robots performing and dispensing the Eucharist for example. An ordained robot could do the whole thing: ...
https://66.media.tumblr.com/0c81f42448558f9d4fd3f3604fa243bd/tumblr_pqyimf7Dop1y3q9d8o1_540.jpg The apprehension of beauty is not universal (everyone ...
A painless death is the last gift you can give to a pet when they are suffering the debilities of age and disease. "When" is a judgement call, of cour...
And you think I'm dreaming! That's fine; you don't have to believe whatever catastrophizing I do here. And I would agree with you that economic activi...
What, pray tell us, is efficient and sustainable about selling water in plastic bottles? arranging society so that everyone who can owns at least one ...
So, do you think that "the desire for more" is the basic driving force in human development? Some people think it is. Should we suppose that human bei...
Yes. I don't know how, exactly, but to this semi-untrained economist, it seems obvious that the work economy as going to fracture. It isn't that econo...
Well, I don't think anyone expects this most inept and mendacious of presidents to solve the problem. On the other hand, the presumably less inept and...
Let me respond as a semi-untrained economist: The current taxation level on the rich is about 30%. It used to be closer to 90%. And you know what? Whe...
Deflating the intensity of religious feeling probably would reduce intergroup friction over religious issues. Banning from public display crosses, hij...
Oh yes, very familiar. Americans have been receiving a steady diet of anti-socialist/anti-marxist/anti-communist education since at least the end of W...
It's about how similar, in a number of ways, fish and people are. Well, you've met people who you thought were cold fish, so there you go. It's about ...
I thought "Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body" by Neil Shubin was very interesting. I don't think he resol...
I know, from reading Dr. Science (He knows more than I do; he has a masters degree -- IN SCIENCE!) that I have recycled through my corporeal cells sev...
"Should the future concern me?" Nah! No reason for you to worry about the future. Just carry on as if there was no tomorrow! (just joking) The future ...
Marx lived in the most advanced capitalist country of his day (Great Britain, empire and all), and was aware of how complex its economy was. He expect...
In an economy serving 300 million, 500 million, or a billion plus people, there pretty much has to be a hierarchy of coordination. Supply chains from ...
Here's a practical example that illustrates your point. A group of grass root food coops were organized in Minneapolis back in the late 1960s-1970s. T...
I don't think Uncle Karl was proposing a 'flat organization of society"; he wasn't a radical an-archist, after all, bent on eliminating every trace of...
Thank you for alerting me. No, I had not seen this before now. As I understand him, Marx envisioned a radically different economy and culture than the...
Not so fast. I'm 72. Unimaginably old to you, I suppose. But let me tell you... I've been using computers for the last 40 years and have used the inte...
A lot of people border on (or actually are) hysterical when it comes to childhood sexuality. Some children tend to be precocious in their sexual activ...
How do you classify this experience in your life? Traumatic? Troublesome? Ambiguous? Pleasant? Good? Have you experienced negative experiences by tell...
This "cis" business was cooked up by misfits who decided that they were normal and everybody else required a new adjective. Ok, so I'm being sarcastic...
It does, indeed, require "exacting minute understanding of complex processes" to master complex technology. A minority of people possess that understa...
Of course. I make up my bullshit, you make up your bullshit. That's OK. The important thing is not to believe your own bullshit. That's where people g...
They may be victims of their natural history. Children raised to like fruits and vegetables are doomed to a lifetime of broccoli, apples, rutabagas, k...
How "free" do you think "free will" is? It doesn't seem to be an absolute condition. It is more often constrained than not. The heroin addicted person...
At that particular moment? Once one has let go of the bridge railing it's a bit difficult to freely change one's mind about committing suicide. So, ha...
Since there are heroin, cocaine, alcohol, and cigarette addicts who have quit using their preferred drug on their own, based on their decision made wh...
Or maybe earlier by Luther who taught that all work is holy. The work of the coal miner or tailor or street cleaner is as holy as someone who has take...
That may be. I don't know what the "TRUE" method of criticizing literature would be. For me, all sorts of factors go into evaluating literature: the b...
You have to look at the history of the countries involved. Now I don't know anything about mosque and church building in Turkey and Romania, but I am ...
It would be nice if someone from the Institute of Institutional Archeology would launch a major dig into the (unfortunately still damp) dung- and garb...
Sorry about your education being derailed by a typewriter. Very weird. Why would a Dvorak be better than a qwerty layout of keys? I take it that you h...
On the other hand... You know, when you read 19th century letters and non-fictional narratives, men seem to be much more expressive than they were or ...
There's been a sea change over the last half century and more. When I was a young boy in the 50s, I noticed that women had much different (and often m...
Less risk aversion and more familiarity with guns, perhaps. Or maybe they are better at engineering. They just intuit how the noose should be arranged...
I think you are both right, more and/or less. Male and female brains are essentially the same--have the same structure, organization, function, and so...
I would like to blame post modernism for having the most opaque, reader-unfriendly style, and maybe it does, but as I reflect on some texts I had to r...
I don't know what you were expecting, but it doesn't seem like your thread is panning out very well. This isn't owing to any fault uniquely yours. Man...
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