Sunknight: Best Practice is to proceed forward cautiously until you have established what you can get away with and what the moderators will stomp on....
Calories in the form of sugars and fats have never been cheaper, and as a result obesity is a global problem. Welcome toThe Fat Earth Society. Sorry, ...
Religious activity is strong and growing in some places, and shrinking in others. Christianity, for instance, is quite strong in China, Africa, and So...
Yes, but it was people in the past like Duchamp in 1917 who made it possible for people in the internet age to call their crap "art". As William Faulk...
Yes, there are definitely people who spend a lot of time consuming voluminous quantities of cultural product, and in so doing they enter a twilight zo...
1917 - Too far back? https://uploads6.wikiart.org/00177/images/marcel-duchamp/fountain.jpg Duchamp announced that if you say it is art, then it is art...
I suppose buckets of "warm slop" could be construed as sexual innuendo, though -- just personally -- it wouldn't do much to turn me on. But tastes var...
There are, of course, standards. One standard is how well the construction of the poem fits the topic. Another would be originality of expression. A t...
To use the technical term for it, thinking that poetry can't be measured, guiding the creativity, gives a shape to creativity, etc. is bullshit. Look,...
I don't know, Ilya; do you some screws loose? Look: About those criminals who founded Australia: "Between 1788 and 1868, about 162,000 convicts were t...
Disclaimer: The following is written with the intent of making vague, positive-sounding non-inferential remarks about a topic of which 9/10ths is floa...
No. The military doesn't submit bids for products from reluctant manufacturers. Companies are anxious to participate in military production because it...
By the Power Invested in me by the Supreme Being, I hereby grant you the authority to speculate and expound, declaim, state, write about, or otherwise...
Maureen: the truth of the matter is that life sucks. It is for a very large number of people one damned thing after another. Billions feel like they a...
Americans aren't morally superior, obviously. They are morally equivalent to a lot of other people. Our elites seem kind of depraved. They should prob...
That's an odd opinion, given that Psychology (granted, that's not the same as psychologizing, but still...) is one of Philosophy's children. In Freud'...
Frank: Moderators, whatever icon they use, have a little circle-image in the upper left hand corner of their square image -- it's the Roman bathhouse ...
Is a Job Interview a Good Example of Healthy Human Relationship? No, definitely not. Job interviews are more typical of deranged relationships. Very b...
"The West" and "Islam" belong to different categories. Christianity and Islam are in the same category--world religions--and the West and the East are...
Guns, Germs & Steel does cover some very useful material. I read the book and didn't see the program. The BBC and PBS have done some interesting progr...
Yes and no. It depends... If you have 100 tons of grain in Egypt that you want to get to Rome, boats are the way to go. If you have good roads on land...
Amerindian people, like people elsewhere, used copper when it was available on the surface in malleable form. For instance, Isle Royale in Lake Superi...
All right, if using stone tools makes one stone age, OK. But the stone age people of Eurasia (up to about 10,000 years ago) didn't domesticate plants ...
Well, sure -- the old world was populated first. But it wasn't stably populated. There was quite a bit of turbulence in Eurasian population movements-...
They weren't stone age civilizations. While it is true that most of their tools were stone, or other hard materials... a) they built large cities b) t...
And here is the same box on the 20th of March, a fortnight before the picture above. Doesn't seem to have the tacky white contact material attached wh...
I'm not sure one can make one's self be happy. (I'm not saying one can not.) It might be like grace -- unearned, undeserved, "unmakable". Many people ...
The 1977 Mel Brooks comedy "High Anxiety" is probably condemned these days. It's a satire on Alfred Hitchcock's movies. One of the scenes shows a hire...
I don't know; "funniness" per se is hard to pin down. It takes other rhetorical devices to make us laugh at a joke (and a joke itself fits into severa...
What are some features that make a joke funny? Is "funniness" one of them? Or is "funniness" derived from other features? It seems like the humor or c...
The sponge joke was moderately funny. I thought the Julius Caesar joke was not funny. Not offensive, just not funny. I prefer things like The Soup Naz...
Are you bipolar? It seems to me that the best thing for bipolar people (and lots of others, as a matter of fact) is to do what you are doing: take you...
Oh, don't worry about that, dear. The American Ruling Class has more wrongful and abusive actions up its sleeve than you can shake a stick at. BTW, yo...
"Redneck" and "Hippie" became important cultural terms at about the same time -- the 1960s. "Redneck" has been used and misused into oblivion. The cla...
No -- let's all try think sane. What young people ought to do (because if they don't do it when they are young, they never will) is follow their dream...
There is no alternative to eventual death. You are a young man and you are thinking about what great accomplishments you can achieve. That is the way ...
A nice, succinct summary of boomer/millennial differences. Yes: Clinton and Obama would be better company for a figurative (or literal) night on the t...
If I understand you, you are not speaking of biological evolution when you say "constantly corrects". For one, it doesn't "correct", and for two, it's...
Naturally, they would be anti-marxist (not that they would know Karl from Groucho) after being drenched in anti-communist, anti-working class, anti-ma...
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