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Wisconsin state license plate motto: EAT CHEESE OR DIE

Imported? What do you think all those cheese plants in Wisconsin are for?

Abortion should first be legal, then we can limit it. If labor has begun, it's just too late, no matter what. 1.3% of abortions are performed past 21 ...

Largely because the Soviet Union flag and Mao's Little Red Book are sufficiently antiquated that they have become graphics which can be associated wit...

Actually composted and sterilized horse manure was the preferred medium. Why sterilized? Growers want only the specific variety of mushroom inoculated...

More good insight. Unfortunately, you might not have been born yet when I most needed your helpful guidance counseling. We all got about zero guidance...

At one point (about 6th grade) I had an entrepreneurial impulse: I was going to raise mushrooms. In 5th grade I developed a fascination with fungi whi...

Good observation. I do, and it does. I did have some really rewarding, good job experiences, but I didn't know how to make more of them happen.

Well, if they suspect you of being a Moscow agent, I guess that would be true. Are you now, or have you ever been, a Moscow Agent, WISDOMfromPO-MO, an...

For a good time, see the Multi Dimensional Human Embryo Site http://embryo.soad.umich.edu/resources/HomeBannerLogoLarge.jpg Chicken, Fish, Human, Dolp...

So, I think you will find the approach of differentiating human fetuses from pig fetuses to be not too helpful. The developing mammalian fetus seems t...

None of that sounds like psychosis to me, but who am I to judge? Pickle-Ish indeed. Sometimes when I look back at my life, and some of the screwy, mal...

I think it's nonsense. And finding abortions repulsive strikes me as a perfectly normal reaction. It's an invasive bloody procedure. However, lots of ...

Can a person be without ego? In my model, no. In common parlance, "ego" means a person's sense of self-esteem or self-importance. self-esteem, self-im...

By "alive" I meant "an independently living being". At 4 or 5 months, the fetus isn't an independently living being. A 100 pound person is 100 pounds ...

It is difficult to peaceably agree with some people around here. I was merely explicating how there were conflicts between Roman Law and local law -- ...

Lots of Roman provinces were "occupied territories" from the POV of the natives, and they had various religions, coinages, laws, traditions, gods, and...

Tourism is good for their economies.

"This has been one hell of a bad day" he said, as the shovels full of dirt started hitting the top of the coffin.

On some dark days at work I've thought about that myself.

Some people think that murder is just problem resolution by another name, like war is diplomacy conducted by other means. No, it isn't fine to murder ...

There is a difference (you and Buxte will readily agree) between being a squishy little 6 week old fetus and a 6 year old child learning arithmetic wh...

And one should! It IS murder. But let's give credit where credit is due: Some states give the death row resident a choice about how they would like to...

And if one doesn't think that abortion is murder, then preventing 700,000 unwanted children is a most desirable outcome. (Are you on the Pay4Care4 700...

Bumper Sticker: Don't approve of abortions? Then don't have one.

That is why the pill, IUDs, diaphragms, and condoms are called contraception. Abortion ends the pregnancy, disrupts the tissue, ends the fetus. A fetu...

To hell with that! I not only practiced homosexuality back when it was both immoral and illegal, I was also promiscuous. It was great. I have no regre...

I didn't say the government couldn't be sued; I said it can't be sued WITHOUT its consent. When and where is this consent given? When suits are filed ...

Bear in mind a point that was raised earlier: The State has sovereign immunity. It can be sued only if it is willing to be sued. Sovereign immunity ap...

Despite the wonders of the on-line digital world, paper is still the best medium to present and store information over the long run. I love books, lib...

I have varied and sometimes odd interests. I have been interested in word meanings, word origins, word frequency lists, and reading difficulty levels ...

Nonsense. The purpose of regulating commerce is to reduce fraud, not to prevent people from getting rich. Remember, the United States IS a capitalist ...

Right. I first heard about...50 years ago, and the steady state theory hasn't had any traction since then.

Damned, Chuck Palahniuk's 2011 novel about hell. It's an absurd comedy, maybe like hell itself. Palahniuk's other novels include Fight Club.

Some intellectuals, especially a lot of intellectuals in certain liberal arts fields, fit these descriptions. But a lot don't. Granted, the exudate of...

I wasn't up to the task last night, and I don't have time today (errands, anticipated heavy snow fall starting this afternoon, cleaning to do list, et...

That is a problem. One piece of it is a need for certainty. Now that need can lead one to intellectual pursuit or intellectual flight. I suppose it de...

As the Wiki article noted, anti-intellectualism is not the sole province of the United States. Some Australians to the contrary, I don't think we can ...

James Howard Kunstler has written movingly about what things like "peak oil" and our dependence on and faith in high-tech solutions to solve all the e...

Should Persons With Mental Disabilities Be Allowed to Vote? I thought it was obvious that they were voting in very large numbers. How else did Donald ...

I enjoyed Damned, Chuck Palahniuk's 2011 novel about hell. The narrator is a barely pubescent girl who dies and is whisked off to hell. Hell is dirty ...

When I was in the 11th grade (English class was focused on American literature) I wrote a very enthusiastic essay about Thoreau's piece, Civil Disobed...

These days, even native English speakers seem to be losing the knack of using clichés properly. I find it very distressing. Posty McPostface, dead peo...

I remember hearing the skit that Rowan Atkinson does here from a BBC recording quite a long time ago. The script was very similar, but it was somebody...

Well "Self Reliance" was an article of faith among the Transcendentalists, wasn't it? So, rugged individualism, I guess. I just don't see most rugged ...

Thank you. But then there is this illogical piece from the Fab Four: When I hold you in my arms And when I feel my finger on your trigger I know nobod...

One of the risks of addressing the wrongs of the past is adding to the level of antagonism felt by people who do not think themselves responsible for ...

In his book, The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, Richard Rothstein takes the view that individual acts of ...

How do you account for the reality that the police actually do protect people from bad things happening to them? Granted, the police do not protect pe...

Thanks. But isn't it true that the function of the police isn't a Federal matter (except for federal marshals).