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Per the eminent anti-ranching Bing Crosby & and the Andrews Sisters Oh, give me land, lots of land under starry skies above Don't fence me in Let me r...

Could be.

Future generations (if there are any) will have a long list of things about which to judge us harshly. Unfortunately, we will not be able to criticize...

I like meat. I do not object to the more traditional farming practices of producing and slaughtering animals for food. I do object to heavily industri...

It's their belching rather than their farting.

This is the sort of self-confidence that makes the Universe laugh. In my humble but highly valued opinion, we should just shut the fuck up about "free...

Mr. Clark has had that skit queued up on his Betamax for decades, just waiting for the secret word. Like Groucho Marx on YOU BET YOUR LIFE quiz show b...

As well she should have, and a good thing for you. Cat sweater women and casseroles (or hotdish as midwesterners say) just isn't something that should...

There is. I didn't experience much of it till it was almost over or until years after it was over, and in any case, as an outsider. I looked on, and I...

Thanks for the cultural reference -- I know nothing about steely Da, other than having heard the name. There's a lot about culture I don't know. Hey, ...

After the action in Grant Park, they took the pig for a walk in the cool of the evening. The pig had been quite excited to be a candidate for POTUS, a...

Pre-eminently intrusive gendarmes? According to a vanishingly small marginal left radical group : “It should be noted that we take our characterizatio...

"Wolverine" was coined in the late 1500s, 2500 years after wolverines disappeared from England, and 1200 years before the Angles and Saxons created En...

At least wolverines are a vigorous predator. For some odd reason, Minnesotans are referenced as "gophers" -- a small burrowing rodent. Nobody actually...

Can a planet be fair and just? Who's asking? Who or what could answer the question? Maybe our planet is indifferent? 'The world' has been in business ...

There is a layer of authoritarianism in any society, because "society" requires some sacrifice of personal prerogatives for the benefit of various par...

Rural for sure, maybe not naturalism. Maybe folk art, some sort of primitivism, or folk-art-like work by a pro. Wouldn't 'naturalism' call for a more ...

Damned if I know. Outside of a hog's distinctive fragrance, I don't know much about pigology.

Here's a svelte Poland China hog -- note his long legs and long body. https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT_cgbTaM-hTo6gN0ivHhf857_X...

Is the big pig standing in back a Bazna breed? they have a contrasting strip around their middle. But so does the red and white one in the foreground....

When is greed not consequential? The love of money (cupiditas) is the root of all evil (radix malorum). Or we could say, the unending search for finan...

Is spelt in Spain spelt just as spelt is spelt in Aquitaine?

Never what's on the stove. Just eat what's on your plate. I thought Biden should step aside BEFORE the debate. Debates are like horse races: they're o...

Glad to hear it. Next thing, pigs. People used to raise a pig or 2 in NYC, and there were feral pigs that provided free sanitation services on the fro...

Several years supply of 5 cup drip filters were lost in the East Palestine, Ohio train crash of February 3, 2023. The box car full of coffee filters f...

I have never run out of coffee or coffee filters. It's just not done! Neither hail nor high water, hurricane nor heat wave shall deter morning coffee....

Fewsome. He's a centrist, moderately liberal governor in a complicated liberal/conservative state. I don't know what policies he would pursue on Israe...

@"Shawn" The Guardian, a British newspaper, helpfully suggests 6 alternatives: Kamala Harris (VP) age 59 Gavin Newsome (Gov. California) age 56 J B Pr...

Kinky Friedman, the Jewish Cowboy CW singer, has died. Here's his lovely song, "They Ain't Making Jews Like Jesus Anymore". https://www.youtube.com/wa...

If olive oil has suddenly become cheaper, you're probably eating corn oil that's been doctored (coloring, flavoring, various ingredients) to very clos...

I believe (as an article of faith) that there are at least several reasonably power hungry, reasonably rational, reasonably talented, reasonably exper...

Gore is 76; are there no desirable candidates under 65 or 70? I voted for Gore before. He got the royal shaft from SCOTUS.

I am not 100% confident that he is too old to survive 4 more years--I'm about 90% sure he's too old. Evidence? He displays the expected decline in pea...

My takeaway: I prefer Joseph Biden as president, but he is old--too old to bear the burdens of office for 4 more years. No fault in being old, but the...

Well, you're cheek to cheek with Queens. No distance there. That's just the odour of Brooklyn.

A possibly useful idea I can share: It takes time to become a person situated securely 'in the world'. 23 is too soon to arrive. You've had some immed...

My bathroom presents similar problems. Finding new toilet bowls that fit old bathrooms is a problem. The toilet cartel and the bathroom cartel are cat...

Judging by your post of 3 days ago, you are performing at a perfectly acceptable level. That's an important element in judging one's state of mind. I ...

Oh yes, his similarity to the Archpriest of Hita is legendary. Who is this archpriest, anyway?

Indeed! The good sisters decided that the current pope -- all the popes since Pius XII -- were fake popes and consequently they rejected the Catholic ...

Contrast death with life which can not end--living forever--in this world, not in some afterlife. I view death as either unfortunate (if it happens to...

@"Hanover" and @"javi2541997" Iambic adventures from Hanover and angry excommunicated candy-selling nuns in northern Spain. Never a dull moment.

Speaking of fish, 2 beluga whales were deported from Ukraine owing to their expressed pro-Russian sentiments ("Russian caviar is very tasty -- we'd ea...

I read the same version you read. I modified my narrative for narrative purposes and to harmonize with what Vera Mont had said (about sailing, volunte...

That's how bicyclists feel when they get rained on a lot -- "It always rains on the unloved!"

I'm not quite sure what an "emotional imbalance" is. Say more. Ennui does not seem like a sufficient cause. Ennui -- listlessness and dissatisfaction ...

That's the good part. "Being drunk" is a somewhat different, less pleasant experience. Full disclosure: "flat out drunk" is something I have not achie...

One abused donkey left the ship, joined up with a herd of elk and found happiness at last. Should @"substantivalism" consider living with a herd of el...

Perhaps volunteer to take a ship of abused donkeys on a hike?