It says they changed it at the request of the Kennedy family. So, just like that. Somebody at Kennedy HQ picks up the phone and calls Mayor Bloomberg ...
Is this in South America? I suppose the ants on the underside of this bridge manage not to drown, or not? Leiningen Versus the Ants -- great story. It...
Here we have a man on his knees in the snow apologizing to a woman he hardly knows for making a possibly inappropriately sexually suggestive comment. ...
If you like bridges, you might like the 'Stone Arch Bridge' across the Mississippi in Minneapolis. It was built by James J. Hill for the Great Norther...
Why should you? After second grade we were moved to a cheesy new elementary school building in like...1955. They attached it to this old building and ...
Here's a picture of my hometown in 1890, about. These two blocks on opposite side of the road are partially intact. The park is still there. https://7...
If you like rail trails and find yourself trapped in SW Wisconsin with nothing to do, check out the Elroy Sparta Trail, the FIRST rail to bicycle trai...
If I were a faithfully religious person, I would quarrel with you. That seems pointless since I have been pitching overboard as much of the protestant...
Street view is pretty amazing. Not taking the actual video of a given street, but storing this huge mass of data in such a way that Google can deliver...
Why, God -- of course! Joking, of course. In The Ruin of the Roman Empire, A New History by James J. O'Donnell, the author observes that after the Bab...
Thanks for your confidence, but it has been quite a while since I have observed much about needle exchange. What I saw, public health outreach, was we...
You didn't ask me, but... what the hell. Some of it is "identity" and some of it isn't. Take the gay marriage issue. It wasn't part of the initial gay...
Well, blame who you will, but I don't think "old-fashioned Marxism" is a very good culprit. It's more likely new-fangled Marxism that is source of the...
Yes, of course. We can assume that parts of the Jewish scripture were 'accumulated' from tribal sources, some of it was borrowed, and some of it was c...
If you think I speak like a true trumper, then you have perceived nothing about anything I have written. Plus, you aren't very good with non-literal s...
WTC 7 was, I assume, a conventional steel frame building. WTC 1 and 2, the two big ones, were not. The big buildings weren't supported by interior ste...
As much as someone steeped in mainline Protestant Christianity and who found it useful can, I call myself an atheist. But I didn't throw the baby Jesu...
The thing about the Bible (and other writings from the ancient world) is that they are not 10,000 years old, and civilization hasn't been destroyed an...
But then you have to account for all of the excellent colleges and universities that were started by and are run by Christians. Apparently it is possi...
Reasonable, and reasoning people--like yourself--react to conspiracy theories negatively because there is a "reality-challenging" pattern to the theor...
I do care about the nature of conspiracy theories -- not so much the content of the theories. The main problem with the content of the theories is tha...
Did I say I thought the Russians did it? I thought I said I didn't care who did it. One of the features of conspiracy theories is to always discount t...
It's the headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency in Langley, Virginia. https://78.media.tumblr.com/94a71b208915cb102cc1b88c1cfd9678/tumblr_p5r...
Actually, I don't give a rat's ass about Sergei Scribal, his demise, and the motive or method employed to kill/execute/silence him and his daughter by...
René and Charlatan think they are freely engaging in a discussion of conspiracies. Obviously they don't know about the nano-sized implants in their br...
Communism is the withering away of the state; communism is the development of a knowledgeable working class (over time) which can take control from th...
Analogy: There are now 9 states that have nuclear weapons and a few more who could if they wanted to. The technology to make an atomic bomb was invent...
If war is diplomacy by other means, mass murder is social policy by other means. No one approves of it, but mass murder seems to have been a handy too...
When you talk about miracles and the supernatural, aren't you references the actions of God? I am not. Chemicals, physics, and time produced life, and...
I used to be a believer and engaged in talk of the spiritual, mystical, and supernatural. I never did, and I don't think of it as "medieval"--more lik...
I do not. But not believing in miracles and/or the supernatural doesn't mean living in a world which is not quite amazing. If the cosmology of the big...
Related word: tenebrae: (in the Roman Catholic Church) matins and lauds for the last three days of Holy Week, at which candles are successively exting...
Oh, did you know "aught" means anything at all? As in "know you aught of this fellow, young sir?" You were probably thinking of "ought" as in "you can...
Brassicas are also referenced as 'coles'; cole slaw is a cabbage salad. Old King Cole was a cabbage head. Old King Cabbage was a sharp witted savage a...
It's phrased in different ways, but it seems to me that a physical world is compatible with a (necessarily limited) will which is able to make many de...
I AGREE with what you said, but what was undemocratic and unpeaceful about the way the suffragettes sought the vote? The temperance movement involved ...
I was in Walgreens to get some first aid supplies for our first aid kit. A Walgreens clerk happened to be restocking that area. I asked him where the ...
They can, do, and did. Elected governments led to the second American revolution of southern succession, for instance. Elected governments also crushe...
Determining what is good for everyone is not "knowledge" it is process. The United States initially restricted voting to the 6% of the population who ...
Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times by Elizabeth Barber makes the case that women mastered the art and tech...
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