Tired of talking about narcissism? Here are 3 new Greek terms to wear out: Thymos, megalothymia, and Isothymia. Megalothymia and isothymia are the two...
I have no doubt that the GOP is suppressing votes, but we should remember that manipulating the vote (vote early and vote often) is something that Dem...
It is true that I am fine with offending some people. It is also true that I do not use colored, negro, and other dated terms. I use either the adject...
"Leadership" isn't inimical to the concept of anarchy; it's the " hierarch", the sacred ruler; the "arkhos" or king, ruler that is the problem. Elimin...
Yes, I understand the term is dated. "Dating" is part of the normal 'churn' in language as people apply different adjectives to familiar nouns. I don'...
Emotions are the instruments on which our lives are played. Without emotions our lives would just be a series of flat synthesized tones. With emotion ...
It should be noted that in this discussion presumably white people are debating what people who are not white should be called. Some non-whites think ...
The 1970 population of 200 million was a nice round population, as opposed to the bloated 300 million today. The question really isn't "How large a po...
Oh, sure we do. It quickly becomes a site of ghastly decomposition. The worms crawl in, the worms crawl out -- literally. Life after death is just lik...
I just don't think most presidents, congresses, governors, legislators, or mayors and city councils have been all that interested in the noble goal of...
It seems to me that the democrats had plenty of money to conduct the 2016 campaign. The spending was $1.4 billion by Democrats (Clinton) to the Republ...
Just so that everyone is clear about this, chastity is a cross I have never considered bearing. Have either of you heard of Dignity, (the gay Catholic...
Indeed, and this happens fairly often. When people override moral claims we call it "antisocial", "wicked", "illegal", "criminal" or some such term. I...
It means that you can only be you. I can only be me. You and I (and all humankind) are not made to live forever; we are made to live for a little whil...
There are too many things in the world to be immensely upset about; one can't (and shouldn't) maintain a state of high dudgeon all the time. Some rage...
I've heard you play. 300 years? You are being extremely optimistic. Just joking of course. But I believe it is a mistake to think that we would achiev...
Not everyone does hate Trump. Those who are not fond of, dislike, loathe, or hate Donald Trump are responding to several features: First, he has zero ...
I might, but what product actually delivers what it claims to deliver? (I guess yoghurt is fairly reliable, but that's only 4 or 5 species of bacteria...
What I got was some benzodiazapine and fentanyl -- the stuff that everybody is overdosing on and dropping dead from. It worked great--I was awake to w...
Probably there isn't much that can be said that will make much difference. One could say something like"The Church hierarchy clearly has tolerated chi...
It's the NAACP not the NAAPOC. What is the matter with 'you people'? Golly gee whiz! It's fine that people are sensitive to language, but the fault of...
I wish people would stop using this sort of pompously dismissive response -- it's been cropping up more often lately in various threads, and it does n...
Thank you! I've had one before, so it won't be a complete surprise. The worst part right now is drinking 2 more quarts of salty slop. There's snow on ...
One thing I noticed in the returns is that in various states 3rd party candidates have drawn more votes than usual. It is probably the case that some ...
Alas, I am not voting. But vote blue, no matter who. Hey, I have a great excuse: I'm having a colonoscopy tomorrow and today is prep day. Not straying...
I think the reality of transgender or transsexual identity has come to be a "false consensus". I have no data, so this is an off-the-cuff analysis. In...
Pedants on Patrol John Mill? I thought it was Oliver Wendell Holmes, US Supreme Court Justice in Schenck vs. United States; Holmes said that the defen...
I don't know what Charles Manson's 'position' was or what "his side of the story" was, but isn't one function of the defense to assure that the defend...
Is it possible to live a happy, fullfillng life without knowing how to dance the ding an sich schottische? It is. Never mind Hegel. Nevertheless... I ...
The solution to these speeding scofflaws is not to quintuple the number of patrol officers or put more cameras in place. The solution is to get rid of...
I don't know why you think I was being apathetic or fatalistic. I quite agree. Apathetic people (individually or in mass) are much easier to control o...
Our lives present more opportunities to exercise individual choice than we have time to use. Most of the time we can exercise individual choice withou...
It isn't what we should do or even what we want to do when we are individual drivers in the middle of a dense traffic flow (or individual pedestrians ...
It sounds to me like what you are talking about is "executive agency" -- the capacity of an individual to decide to do something and then carry out th...
You are encountering them in a setting where there is no interpersonal nuance. Were we all to meet in a bar for a few beers, we'd all get along just f...
True. The problem that highway patrols have is that their policing territories are too large for the number of cars and officers to be able to ticket ...
You are both right. The posted speed limits are real and are rationally determined. People can and ought to obey the traffic laws. On the other hand, ...
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