Offer up prayers, burnt offerings, your first born, whatever you've got, that "cost them votes in the midterms" turns out to be a huge understatement,...
Shit happens. I can see why some people would think I was being insensitive. I do understand that Dr. Ford was psychologically damaged by the assault ...
I heard much of Ford's testimony, then I had to leave for the Dentist. The people in the University dental school cubical didn't know anything about i...
The picture is untouched. The brightness is the result of my Transfiguration which was beginning that morning. https://78.media.tumblr.com/161755ff44b...
A logical exercise is mostly irrelevant in religious belief. Belief just doesn't work that way. People do not arrive at belief through logic (in 99+% ...
IF you are against Kavanaugh being approved by the Senate, then welcome to the club of people who wish to see him rejected. The appropriate grounds fo...
It doesn't matter how many people heard her discuss Kavanaugh's behavior. It wasn't criminal when it happened and being brought up 35 years later does...
There are plenty of good reasons to vote NO on Kavanaugh without defining juvenile behavior as sex crime. You are corralling too much behavior and too...
At times religion has seemed a lot like a poke in the eye with a sharp stick, and other times it has felt better than that. I haven't read the thread,...
Jews, Christians, Moslems, Buddhists, Zoroastrians, Hindus, Jains, etc. have been busy trying to explain/defend/make sense of their religions for a lo...
Just curious... are you concerned with your own salvation and damnation, or is this a logic problem for you? I don't like stingy salvation and generou...
See, those are the kinds of reasons that I would like to see for disqualifying a candidate to a nominated federal office. And I want the disqualifying...
Are people consulting the canon of Anglo-American literature (let alone the canons of western lit) for guidance? I have a sneaking suspicion they are ...
"Religion", as Uncle Karl said, "is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the...
Were Thoreau and Emerson ever that influential? I like them both, but... An Essay on Civil Disobedience was never a best seller, and the people who we...
I think NK's Maximum Leader Kim Jong-un brought Trump to the tables, as @"wayfarer" suggested. Kim, and his predecessors have practiced a weird hot/co...
Guardian Headline Facebook failing to protect moderators from mental trauma, lawsuit claims Contractors ‘irreparably traumatized’ by having to witness...
That's part of your problem right there: sitting home all the time doing nothing. In your situation, activity might be quite therapeutic. What kind of...
Absolutely. It's like when somebody offers the platitude, "It's a great day to be alive!" I always respond with "Let's not get carried away with enthu...
Remember my support for antinatalism is practical, not philosophical. I don't expect life to be without suffering; painless; always interesting; daily...
The process of nominee-selection will probably be partisan for the foreseeable future. It isn't so much a question of looking for good Dems or good Re...
"Reproduction is a Political Act" So is not reproducing--even more political, really. Reproduction is a default. You have to develop reasons to take t...
The case of Abe Fortas provides an example of adult character failures. Fortas sat on the court for only 3 years ('66 to '69); he was appointed by Lyn...
Of course it's possible that I am shit head; but it's also possible that I am not. It's probably a matter of your opinion--to which you are, of course...
Sorry, I missed it earlier. Well, Kavanaugh and his upper-class friends engaged in a lot more juvenile sexual behavior than ever went on in the State ...
She is a victim, at this point, of an unproven accusation, an accusation that will most likely stay that way. #metoo and Blasey Ford make an accusatio...
The distinguished and genteel, never tasteless or boorish, President of the United States of America does the nominating. All the Senate has to do is ...
Oh, Frank! You have no idea how much dastardliness I have had to endure -- the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune! It's just fucking appalling. I...
Does "lying" carry the same weight as "misrepresenting the facts"? We don't know what actually happened. She says one thing, he denies that one thing....
It is true, as you said, that the civil war was a watershed for federal power, brought on by people who didn't like any kind of centralized power, eve...
He wasn't accused until a few days ago, so sure, he has gone "scot-free" the same way all of us who could have been accused of something (whether we d...
At this level of nomination, is anyone really "above reproach" from any angle which members of the pubic are highly invested in? Judges rule on lots o...
There seem to be quite a few gradations of assault. Stepping (not stomping) on my foot and beating me senseless are both assault and battery but hardl...
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