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Maybe Maryland has fewer crimes covered by statute of limitations than other states. It doesn't seem like statutes of limitations are entirely rationa...

Q: Who has ever lied to Congress? It is a cess pit after all. A: This might be a tough one to answer comprehensively especially because it is extremel...

Yes, in this case. But charges were not pressed and the statute of limitation on this event has expired; the alleged perpetrator was drunk, and undera...

At this point the case is one person's version versus another persons version, delayed by 35 years time. There is no way to prove very much about this...

Ram, homosexuals are not practicing: We're good at it. With reference to the Trinity, your thread you messed up on by not explicating your opinion... ...

I'm against Kavanaugh just because Trump submitted his name for SCOTUS. He could walk on water and I would still disapprove of his nomination. That he...

Because 'determination' is not singular, consistent, or unidirectional, and we seem to have some degree of freedom (so that we can make voluntary choi...

Turn of the Screws? I thought it was orange juice and vodka. Screw turner! Outlandish.

Well, perennials keep coming up. As opposed to annuals which you have to plant again.

“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.” “The question is,”...

Everything begins in mysticism and ends in politics. Charles Peguy.

You mean, the sex dolls having sex with each other? I suppose that might not be very meaningful, since the dolls would have difficulty developing a de...

Can we have 'choice' if our behavior is 'determined'? Setting aside indeterminate particles, the chain of determination from atoms created in a supern...

More recently than the Nazis, the Rwanda and the Balkan massacres come to mind. The Balkans seems to have produced some unusually long-lived and bitte...

Non-hypothetical quote: "Lagoons of Pig Waste Are Overflowing After Florence. Yes, That’s as Nasty as It Sounds." Hmmmm, sounds like Washington, DC at...

Or visa versa: what holds nations together are strong internal identity and material necessity causes war. Or both. I do not have enough background to...

We enlightened moderns dismiss the ethnic identities of the rabble, frown on nationalism, disapprove of the nation state, regret the existence of hier...

Americans would like to blame Brussels as well. We are tired of criticizing and blaming Washington, and Washington has grown accustomed to being criti...

FORGET PLAN B. We will either survive under plan A or we will die. Which, by the way, would not stop the world spinning. Problems to overcome with Pla...

And here you acknowledge that this sort of truth telling (like the truth of who you are) can damage relationships. I still think that one should think...

I'm also read Sapiens. I like it, so far. Interstellar travel is, of course, entirely possible -- provided we can solve all sorts of immensely difficu...

Supposing that after you have revealed your intrusive interest in the cheatee's and the cheator's personal lives, the cheatee reveals that he is relie...

I think polytheism might be superior to monotheism. Monotheists tend to be rigid about being right: Jews, Christians Moslems... Supposedly (according ...

Continual economic expansion wasn't a thing in the centuries preceding the IR. What made it possible was a somewhat stagnant society that had a low le...

Be sure to calculate the cost of fetching useful ore from asteroids before you decide that is a workable solution.

@"SSU", you seem to have economic expertise. Is zero economic growth possible to achieve without producing a disaster? @"Chattering Monkey", which Har...

This is a good topic, but how amenable to armchair analysis it will be... don't know. Some questions: When you say 'stop economic growth' do you mean....

Thanks for the tip.

I don't know... chutney on spaghetti doesn't sound all that appealing. I suppose it depends on what form of chutney one uses.

How do you do the @so and so thing?

See, this is why the ShoutBox should be updated on the main page: Our most productive poster Posty McPostface announced his birthday and nobody almost...

"FAITH ERODES COMPASSION". Where do people get these stupid ideas from? Maybe faith is a good thing; maybe not. On what basis does some yoyo think tha...

Ahhh, interesting question that, is TPH the epicenter of the chattering class. No, I'm afraid not. We aren't nearly 'elite' enough. It isn't that the ...

I'm sorry, but I don't see the fine literary novel ceasing to be what it was before. Granted, other art forms that are really quite compelling have jo...

There are some reasons for this damnable situation. One reason is that the real unemployment rate is probably considerably higher than 4%, or any othe...

Some teacher training programs in home economics still exist, but more often than not it isn't called "home economics". I think it is a very relevant ...

Please expand on this. I'm not sure what you mean.

We are a pluralistic society, remember. Just because the schools in one part of town are shitholes doesn't mean that ALL the schools in town are equal...

I always attended public schools; we used to have "release time religious education" -- about 4 hours a week students left school to receive religious...

Oh yes, I understand that. But parents establish the values of their children, for better and for worse--quite often the latter. Very true. I went thr...

Posty, you're asking the schools to bear unreasonable levels of responsibility. Schools do well (not just to day, but at any time) if students leave b...

I loathe Donald Trump, but you can't blame his election on "the American education system". Some poorly educated people voted for Clinton, and some we...

Of course we do instill values in the youth. But remember, America is a quite heterogenous society. A 13 year old was kicking a soccer ball against th...

Wasn't it just yesterday that hordes of refugees were paddling across the Aegean Sea for Europe, and marching up the Balkans on their way to the promi...

Probably most teenagers do not read books; probably most of their parents do not read either. There has always been a large demographic of people who ...

Certainly, technical changes alter the way we read and write. Guttenberg's printing press resulted in much different writing and reading than was poss...

There are "big picture" and "close-up" thinkers. You are a big picture thinker. I am a big picture thinker. Big picture thinkers are "a" (not "the") c...

In the world it is quite possible to not starve, have 'gainful employment', but still have a lack of respect and sense of belonging. The employed may ...

I don't know. Can we assess the happiness of ages past? The dead are a devilishly difficulty demographic to survey. What we can do is assess the happi...