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I don't know where you live. Part of my take on race relations derives from living in Minneapolis, MN. This state has one of the most extreme inequali...

Well, don't take it personally. You know, the problem with e-mail, texts, forums such as this, and similar kinds of communication is that misinterpret...

Your analysis misses a major point: Were we to claw back many trillions of dollars from the richest 1% (whose total wealth, as I cited above, is very ...

Those are admirable and attractive goals. I've always assumed that they are possible. Your goals are so desirable and presumably achievable, why have ...

Reforming the tax code would be highly appropriate, since earlier changes that contributed to the concentration of wealth. Another thing that has help...

There isn't much chance that the government as it is now constituted would be able to seize the piles of the rich folk's wealth. Inconveniently, it is...

Scrieu vendium maximus.

The People are recklessly employing all these allegedly useless modifiers and intensifiers because, in these times, there is no Grammar King and every...

Our assertions about the gods are more than blind guesses. They are culturally engineered facts. In other words, we know that gods exist because we in...

"How the world began, from YOUR perspective" Alas, I wasn't around at the time to have a personal perspective on the world's beginning. Nobody else wa...

Perhaps you are asserting that society does not exist, and are throwing out culture as well. "it's all individual activity. Nothing else." Well, the c...

Just saying... don't get too uppity about being a human.

I am not Jewish either, at least as far as I know. I'd be fine with it if I was. I do care about race: I like the fact that there are distinct racial ...

The problem with white supremacists, nazis, white racists, alt right, fascists, and so on is that these are all epithets tossed by liberals, SJWs, "ma...

So, he was Chinese? African? Native Amerindian? What? According to some, "Caucasian" means western Europe and descendants therefrom. Broader definitio...

Sounds like quid pro quo to me.

How do you tell the difference between the escaped and cleverly adaptive monkeys and your average Florida primate householder?

This is in fact happening. All sorts of tropical pet reptiles that got too big have been let go in peoples back yards where, Florida being sub tropica...

And so on. The animals from which we evolved (as yet another animal) all had various survival behaviors and strategies. Those ancient mechanisms are p...

I do not think 'death' and 'the fear of dying' accounts for our bouts of bellicose behavior. The only condition under which we could achieve universal...

Cussédness. Sometimes when we experience free-floating anger, rage, anxiety, animosity, resentment, etc. we want to relieve the static charge by zappi...

But sometimes people are also deranged madmen, and survival isn't really the point of their behavior. I'm not sure what all drove Brenton Tarrant to k...

If 'survival' was all that was possible, then that is all that we could strive for, because all our energy and time would be taken up. People sometime...

Which of these is most satisfactory? God - present / world - bad God - absent / world - bad God - present / world -good God - absent / world - good Wh...

This is a very tasteless picture. Not only do we see bits of male genitalia, but the sow's tits are also clearly visible. Further, there is some sort ...

One needs no science here. Just spend an hour among humans, then spend an hour among pigs, and it becomes obvious that we are closely related. The pig...

I don't want to downplay the power of propaganda or psychological warfare methods. But I was trying to state this point clearly: that it is unclear to...

Story of my life. But people are stupid, too. Seems like, anyway. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJY8jJkDoMY

But Wax, if we agree that people are stupid feckless fools, then why would we ever want to deflect the killer caboose from its appointed rounds? The t...

I read somewhere that people are stupid.

I am much less certain than I used to be about what causes people to experience strong feelings of hatred, and what causes them to act upon those feel...

WTF? Was a horse upset, frightened, or annoyed by being called gay? As in "I don't care what people do, so long as they don’t do it in the streets and...

I can't tell whether it was racist or not. Can you provide the twit's tweet text? Calling Sikhs Moslems, or visa versa, is not racist. It could be tha...

A question on Dutch meat and dairy production: It wasn't clear to me whether the Dutch are producing all of the fodder and grain / protein which they ...

It's pretty amazing. Several very large corporations, like Monsanto, DuPont, Bayer, Dow, etc. own or have controlling interests in dozens of other com...

But seriously, government intervention is needed. A young man can not just start farming. Capital is needed -- cash, machinery, seed stock, animal sto...

A young man starts farming. He has children. He convinces the children that farming is the best thing in the world (evidence to the contrary). Rinse a...

I haven't checked this, but it seems to me that tree-crops (apples, pears, apricots, peaches, oranges, pecans, almonds, walnuts, etc.) have very high ...

I'm all in favor of small farms, organic methods, minimum tillage, truck farming, and so on. There is nothing impractical about any of this. Before WW...

Most countries do, because other countries grow food that are in demand. Like, hard sausage from Italy, apricots from Turkey, olives from Greece, wine...

$73 million??? SSU, where did you get these numbers from, and what do they represent? A quick search showed that the value of just two US food exports...

Oh my! It IS SO EASY to shovel good advice off the back of the truck. Be sure to take it with a grain (or 10) of salt.

Everybody likes to talk about themselves; why should you be any different? And he isn't taking medication for anxiety, I bet. He may be ideally cut ou...

You say your mother is bipolar. Is she receiving psychiatric care? If so, what, and if not, why not? I take it your mother's feet are sufficient recov...

We can define "natural" (from nature) quite precisely but it may not make any difference in how the word is used. That's because the connotations of "...

I'm far closer to being homeless than to being even slightly rich.

All that and more. "Decades" are significant only when they really do start at the moment of change. Prohibition began in 1920; the effects of prohibi...

Were I really smart, I would know whether it was a better Idea to agree with you two or say "you must be kidding". I do like the sound of people sayin...

Another thing about Reagan is that he was losing his mind from early alzheimers (while he was still president).

I don't think so. I don't know what my IQ is. There are vast encyclopedias of info I know zero about. On some subjects I can fake encyclopedic knowled...