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You will live your life as you see fit, of course, and you are entitled to do that. At least in southern Italian families just a few generations back ...

I don't know whether or not drinking alcohol produces a Jekyll and Hyde change. I just don't know enough people well enough who have been both alcohol...

It is possible to believe in free speech and at the same time believe that speech has consequences. If we want to have zero limits on speech, it seems...

You cite a good example of belief and behavior. People have to actually eat differently to have effective beliefs about diet and/or weight loss. Actua...

Made my day.

Of course, a 90 lb. weakling is at a disadvantage in martial arts. The guys in the karate club at the U were a pretty lean muscular bunch (drool).

Of course it is artificial. In the good old days, men got magnificent physiques by building temples and city walls and houses out of stone with their ...

According to some good, sound ethical systems, we can not justify harming others beyond self defense. Some ethical systems even rule self defense out ...

Darwin investigated the mechanisms of nature. That fact that life in the universe changes over time need not lead us to the conclusion that the univer...

Congratulations are in order. You appear to be the first person to have used the word "perdure" in The Philosophy Forum. Also, welcome. Perdure entere...

OK, you are using the term "belief" somewhat differently than I am using it. Your examples of president, distance to the moon, or plagal cadence are w...

Workers of the world unite. You have a world to gain and nothing to lose but your chains. Yes.

I already told you: all of it. The multi-millionaires and billionaires will be financially cleaned out. You can find your own list of very wealthy peo...

Well, I have never had so much to drink that I behaved inappropriately. Ever! What! Never? Well, hardly ever. Well there was that one time... and then...

Gosh, speak of the devil and she appears. This week's New Yorker has a piece on Dworkin's bloated corpse. Shudder.

I have my doubts about people not acting on their beliefs. My theory is that a person can have an idea that they don't act on, but that beliefs are re...

According to Wikipedia, "gay" in the context of which you are speaking... https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/The_Great_Social_E...

Well, that wasn't all in the same week! It took 25 years to stumble on the last one who was really quite good. You are supposed to do most of the talk...

That will be $150.

I've seen psychiatrists and three different therapists. The best one was finishing her therapy doctorate at St. Thomas University. We met weekly for a...

Up until the late 60s and early 70s, it was possible for a family or a state agency to commit a problematic person to a psychiatric hospital without m...

Well of course. People traded in slaves because it was a profitable, low-overhead, and sustainable business. And, important point, it began and was fi...

@"Anaxagoras", @"I like sushi", It's the operation of "the outrage machine" that give some advocates for a better world a bad name (trying to avoid th...

Medicine is a practice, and in so saying I'm not knocking it. Ditto for psychiatry. Ditto for dentistry. On their way to practice, students study scie...

Welcome to MySpace. Well that's an interesting tangent, to say the least. Keep bringing it up. Is Andrea Dworkin a 3/4th wave feminist? I encountered ...

We know we belong to the land And the land we belong to is grand! Rogers & Hammerstein, Oklahoma! It's about having roots in the soil, having a partic...

I didn't know @"S" was neurotic in that way. Let's ask him. It follows that an insightful fellow like Wallows will allow that homo sapiens are regular...

Your observations are very interesting. I finished high school in 1964. In the fairly small middling quality school I attended there was the usual dis...

This is sound art theory ever since Marcel Duchamp, which is over a century ago, now.

Well, Pink Flamingoes is definitely not the greatest movie in history (since at least the reign of Nebuchadnezzar). Casablanca would be in the running...

I couldn't quite rate it as "greatest SNL sketch ever. Greatest television broadcast event ever. High point of all Western culture. No, really, seriou...

So as it happens, I had not a clue to where it came from. I have huge gaps in my database of popular culture (just for one example). Somebody at work ...

The side truth of the species is that we are not very nice. We engage in all sorts of bad behaviors: ruthless conquest, mass murder, slavery, exploita...

HOUSING FIRST is an excellent strategy employed sometimes, but too seldom in the United States. It just rubs some people the wrong way to hand somebod...

We can at least agree that screwy looniness is evenly distributed across the population.

Dream on.

Good example of a sensible policy. A number of housing programs in the United States have started to distribute public housing across urban territory ...

You seem to be having a cognition problem here. The source you cited says the average United States Wealth per Adult is $403,974. You apparently do no...

What was not an accident is the racial distribution of populations and home ownership in metropolitan areas (where most Americans live). As Richard Ro...

I want a reduction in the large structured economic disparities with which most Americans live. This can be addressed without reference to race, up to...

@"Judaka" et al: Here are 5 books that do a good job at explaining how a critical portion of our racial and economic problems were engineered. It wasn...

One of the reasons we have a deficit is that a few years ago (and 3 decades ago) we lowered the tax on the wealthiest Americans. Lower taxes on the we...

A technical issue: If you want to put a participant in blue, you have to do it this way: @ " bitter Crank " (but with no spaces around the @ or the ")...

I did, but here are some more: "Wealth" is not the same as income. A man who outright owns a house worth $100,000, has no debts, no savings, and has a...

Thyroid dysfunction can be pretty serious, I agree, but how common is undiagnosed thyroid deficiency?

It does seem to be the case that "depression" has become a sink into which all sorts of conditions are tossed. Lots of people are lonely, angry, frust...

"You will see more before you see less!" @"Bitter Crank" said, obscurely. Or did he mean "you will see less and then you will see more!"? I don't know...

I assume you live in the UK? Based on "bone idle" and "redundant". True? False. When the lion and the lamb lay down together, we can be assured that t...

Ah, well... I was going to take a good deal more than 1 billion and 1 million from the B and M aires. I was going to take the lion's share -- that is,...

It is a well known fact that motors purr, yet motors are not cats. Women have cat fights, yet yet are not cats. But that is readily explainable: All w...